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ericjmorey@discuss.online 1 week agono sketchy pricing based on bullwhip procurement.
Walmart’s procurement has been abusive to their suppliers (who often go out of business because of their relationship with Walmart) for decades. I think you may need to reassess your perception of their procurement strategy.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Lol that’s called business. It’s why nothing came from any of the investigations accusing them of not doing enough to protect workers employed by other companies they purchased from. It also happened around 2015ish and all the articles I found from 2020 praise their supply chain managment.
…edu.tr/…/Optimizing-Walmarts-Supply-Chain-from-S…
marketingscoop.com/…/walmart-supply-chain-strateg…
researchgate.net/…/375551491_Retail_Supply_Chain_…
I mean they were called out for not being attentive enough and they responded in a way you would hope a company would respond. Albeit an article written by walmart but still they owned up and addressed it.
…walmart.com/…/what-is-walmart-doing-to-promote-r…
ericjmorey@discuss.online 1 week ago
They dictate the operations of their suppliers. They force large expansions in capital investment and then decide that they don’t want to renew the supplier relationship before the financing for the capital investments can be paid back. The only way suppliers can hope avoid this is to do what Walmart wants or constantly change their products in often superficial ways with branding agreements for IP of entertainment companies.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Lol again they’re business savy. You’re an idiot 🤣
ericjmorey@discuss.online 6 days ago
Fuck you. You dunce.