More wal mart shenanigans

[nap]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL

Because it meets the same bloody approvals as the version not sold at Walmart?


You just reminded me of this thread:

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/1309856/1

 

[OVERKILL]

Ahhh yes, that was quite the saga.

 

[Vuflanovsky]

Although this topic has been beaten to death over time, I've always looked at it in the sense that in relation to motor oil, the differentiation of producing variants would almost certainly cost more than the cost savings to WalMart. Generally, the rolling ST oil contracts fill that void and not SOPUS, Valvoline, or Exxon/Mobil going to Bentonville and negotiating an altered product that costs them more to produce.

Apparently, there are certain electronic items, for example, that have specific WM SKUs and are mostly the same but differ in minor ways. I don't think oil companies would acquiesce to that type of variance just due to the nature of the business versus having a separate assembly line for a slightly different chipset or functionality made in numbers that's contracted for WalMart and Sam's Club and/or other mass marketers.

 

[Hall]

Originally Posted By: Vuflanovsky
Although this topic has been beaten to death over time, I've always looked at it in the sense that in relation to motor oil, the differentiation of producing variants would almost certainly cost more than the cost savings to WalMart.


That's something many people don't realize that different formulas can cost more because a blender often loses better pricing they can get based on buying higher volumes of products (additives). For example, instead of buying 1 million 'units' of "x", they only buy 500k 'units' of "x" and 500k 'units' of "y". They lose buying power when they don't buy 1 million units. The supplier for Walmart, as an example, can (and does apparently) produce the same formulation for Walmart and many, many other companies and pass on savings to those buyers.

 

[dlundblad]

I've given up on being politically correct with oil a few years ago.

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