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Default Walmart Presents Even Lower Standards

On 6/4/2010 4:28 PM, brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:11:09 -0500, >
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:46:42 -0500, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>
>>> In >,
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cooks brand ham: "A water and ham product": 25% of weight is
>>>> added water. Still more expensive than the Smithfiled wet-cured
>>>> hams ("Ham in natural juices" - the best quality).
>>>
>>>> -sw
>>>
>>> Man, you just stomped on my heart and smashed that sucker flat. Cook's
>>> have been my favorite ham for a very long time. And I, who screams
>>> about Hormel's added "flavor solution" all the time, absolutely missed
>>> (wasn't even looking for it) that "23% of weight is added ingredients"
>>> statement. I weep for sad. After reading your post I thought maybe
>>> they don't do that to all their hams -- maybe just the ones that go to
>>> Walmart--and I didn't get mine there. No such luck. :-( :-(<8*(

>>
>> They could very well be hams made specifically for Walmart. Most
>> manufacturers who supply Walmart have two lines of products - One
>> they sell to Walmart (and now Target), and another they sell to
>> everybody else to try and maintain their reputation.

>
> Bullshit. Walmart can sell for less because they pay less because
> they buy in greater volume than everyone else. Anyone thinks the
> Scope mouth wash at Walmart is lower quality because it's priced less
> than elsewhere is nuts, probably having an eliptical fit... until
> today I didn't know the dwarf was in orbit, however aren't all dwarfs
> kinda ovate? LOL



How long have you believed you are omniscient?

>
>> Lebvi Jeans
>> is a good example (the ones bought from Walmart rip within
>> months).

>
> Especially the knees, eh, dwarf? hehehe
>
> Levi makes many styles of jeans using different weight denim... dwafs
> like you who claim to have a nice ass probably wear denim with
> spandex... they ship the same quality product to every store....
> Walmart probably sells mostly if not all the lower weight denim
> styles, obviously lower weight denim costs less but wears faster. Most
> folks, especially rugrats, don't need the heavy duty denim, they
> outgrow them so fast they never get to wear/wash them out and often
> the style is not to wear washed out jeans... mostly out grown out of
> style jeans get passsed down or donated so why pay top dollar for
> something one can't use up. Folks who want to wear their clothes
> month after month, wash after wash, year after year shouldn't be
> buying their clothing from Walmart... buy those at a store that
> specializes in workman/contractor clothing, they'll have the original
> heavyweight Levis... they'll also cost a lot more than the light
> weight styles from Walmart.
>
> WOW... Levi has more kinds of jeans than I can count:
> http://us.levi.com/home/index.jsp?clickid=header_logo