Walmart and Mobli 1 0/20 AFE

[rrounds]

Is this the same oil?
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mobil-1-0W-20-Advanced-Fuel-Economy-Full-Synthetic-Motor-Oil-5qt/17034374
and
http://www.amazon.com/Mobil-96995-Synthe...s=mobil+1+0w-20

Walmart has 5 qt's for $22.47($4.49 per qt.) and Amazon has it for $51.52($8.59 per qt.) for six qt's. Auto Zone has M1 0/20 AFE(the SN stuff) for $8.99 so how can Walmart sell the same oil(if it is the same oil) for 47% less?

ROD

 

[2James1]

Yep exact same oil. Id say volume is the reason. Even the coveted 0w-40 is $22.47 at walmart.

 

[tig1]

Here is the link.

http://www.mobiloil.com/USA-English/Moto...ty_Walmart.aspx

 

[Mr Nice]

WMT can afford to sell it at that price due to volume.

 

[Artem]

It's the same lube.

You're also comparing the price of a jug (divided into quarts) vs a quart bottle at full retail price at the auto parts store.

Compare apples to apples.

Walmart sells a quart of M1 for $6.XX vs the $8.XX at the auto parts stores.

If you compare the price of a 5qt jug from Wally's to a 5qt jug + oil filter deal at the parts store, the price is very close, when you consider that you're getting an oil filter worth $X.XX

 

[regal55]

I was always taught you get what you pay for, not saying M1 0w20 is bad oil but its obviously $22.47/5Qt oil and Walmart is still making money on it.

Surely an OEM like Toyota sells more oil than walmart yet their 0w20 still sells for $7/qt. Commonsense tells me that it costs more to build TGMO 0w20 than Mobil Ow20. Does that necessarily make it better? No, but there must be technical reasons that Toyota spec's TGMO knowing it costs more to deal with than regular M1 0w20.

It just makes one think there must be a good reason Toyota handles the extra overhead with their formulation, something like insurance for their 60k mi powertrain warranty.

Or it could just be priced higher because Toyota wants to make money selling you their labor to do an oil change. But my Scion has free oil changes for 30k miles, so I don't claim to have the answers, being a ChE (in a different field) just makes me ask more questions

 

[Leonardo629]

I think you got it reversed, Walmart sells more oil than Toyota...hence the lower price. 5qt jug is cheaper also because there's less plastic containers involved in the packaging.

 

[tig1]

Originally Posted By: regal55
I was always taught you get what you pay for, not saying M1 0w20 is bad oil but its obviously $22.47/5Qt oil and Walmart is still making money on it.

Surely an OEM like Toyota sells more oil than walmart yet their 0w20 still sells for $7/qt. Commonsense tells me that it costs more to build TGMO 0w20 than Mobil Ow20. Does that necessarily make it better? No, but there must be technical reasons that Toyota spec's TGMO knowing it costs more to deal with than regular M1 0w20.

It just makes one think there must be a good reason Toyota handles the extra overhead with their formulation, something like insurance for their 60k mi powertrain warranty.

Or it could just be priced higher because Toyota wants to make money selling you their labor to do an oil change. But my Scion has free oil changes for 30k miles, so I don't claim to have the answers, being a ChE (in a different field) just makes me ask more questions

You have it backwards on about all this.