Walmart Suspends Weekly Flyers
I'm not surprised - but a little sad I won't be able to price match at Save On Foods for the time being!
Mar 25th, 2020 11:43 pm
Mar 26th, 2020 12:42 am
Mar 26th, 2020 12:59 am
there's a Chinese story that's been trending in the past few years and it goes something like this:
Mar 26th, 2020 1:01 am
Are the specials still in store or are there no specials at all? If the latter than that is indeed incredibly weak. All the big companies are still making money hand over fist, and now they are removing flyers because that will put more money in their pockets.
Mar 26th, 2020 1:43 am
Mar 26th, 2020 8:18 am
Are you serious? Be thankful that you can find what you need at regular prices. Calling this "price gouging" is ludicrous.
+1bluebellrose wrote: ↑ They are trying to minimize people coming out to make needless trips. If they have sales, people will come in droves. No sales, people will only buy what they need and not come out.
Mar 26th, 2020 8:32 am
Mar 26th, 2020 8:50 am
Those people may not even be WM employees, i.e. they work for independent graphic design firms, or even if they're WM employees they work at HQ, not individual stores.
Mar 26th, 2020 8:54 am
In other words peeps dont know good they've had it until shit hits the fan. Point blank. #factCapricornxs wrote: ↑ there's a Chinese story that's been trending in the past few years and it goes something like this:
There's a beggar that always comes my apartment building and everyday on my way to work I would bring food and tea for him. I do this for a whole year but for the Chinese New Years I leave with my family and visit my parents for a month. When I come back the beggar is furious with me and shouts and insults me saying "where have you been for the past month? I have been without breakfast and tea all this time! You should be ashamed of yourself!"
Mar 26th, 2020 8:59 am
Mar 26th, 2020 9:02 am
You're missing the point, I was questioning how the production of a weekly flyer affects stock levels at stores. Answer: It doesn't.
Mar 26th, 2020 9:08 am
Mar 26th, 2020 9:11 am
You make a good point here.canaduh wrote: ↑ This is likely because Walmart Canada has proven its distribution system to be dysfunctional, and they need to do whatever they can to play catchup on store stock shortages. You don't announce the need to hire 10000 more warehousing employees unless you're really desperate. When everybody started panic stockpiling groceries a week or so ago, I found Walmart's empty shelves the most alarming, far worse than Metro, Loblaw, and Sobeys. Grocery sections at all Walmart Superstores and regular stores in Kitchener were consistently more than 50% empty; aisle after aisle totally empty, way worse than Zehrs and Food Basics.
Anyone who thinks it's altruistic of Walmart to suspend flyers should also have stopped participating in the RFD forum weeks ago, and lobbied it to be temporarily shut down because ermagherd, it's causing people to come out and shop in public, which must be eliminated during coronapocalypse! [/s]
Mar 26th, 2020 9:19 am
Mar 26th, 2020 9:56 am
This is what I see.
Mar 26th, 2020 9:58 am
Mar 26th, 2020 10:44 am
I can understand no flyer but no price match? Unless every store goes flyerless, no price match means some will visit multiple stores to score deals increasing exposure time.
Mar 26th, 2020 12:05 pm
I wonder if that has something to do with cashiers needing to get close enough to see the details of the pm i.e. from an app on cellphone or having to handle a paper flyer?
Mar 26th, 2020 12:09 pm
Could be, at my RCSS plastic separators were installed to shield cashiers so distance is not really an issue. Simply had to show my phone from behind and all was good.Mars2012 wrote: ↑ I wonder if that has something to do with cashiers needing to get close enough to see the details of the pm i.e. from an app on cellphone or having to handle a paper flyer?
I noticed at Costco the other day, the people who check receipts at the door are asking customers to just hold the receipt with both hands so they could mark it with their sharpie.
Mar 26th, 2020 12:45 pm
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