Well done.

Let's not forget yet another ripple effect of Wal-Mart. I have worked for two companies that do business with Wal- Mart as one of their vendors. In both instances, I was required to service these Wal- Mart accounts. the results were the same. Wal-Mart is unreasonably demanding in their processes and procedures and pay so much less for their products than any other account, yet both my employers feel they must do business with them for recognition only. In fact, the first job where I serviced Wal-Mart was not even profitable for my company. It was actually a money losing account! Both jobs affected me because they are the most time consuming and least profitable accounts I had. In a way, I spend half my day working for Wal-Mart wages when I could be making more servicing other accounts. The bottom line is that Wal-Marts vendors could do alot more to help improve wages and working conditions for their own employees as well as Wal-Marts employees.

I worked for a large multinational plastics company that had WalMart as it's largest customer. For the first six or eight years it seemed that this was a marriage made in heaven, then it turned ugly. With the onslaught of Just In Time (JIT), and Lean Manufacturing it became impossible; for even a company the size of the one that I worked for; to keep up with the volume that WalMart demanded and at the low low prices WalMart was willing to pay. Many times we got huge orders a day or two before the Walmart circular was released. WalMart would expect the company to turn out 20 to 50 thousand pieces to meet its circular demand. With the concept of Lean Manufacturing and Just In Time already in play, it is impossible to meet an order that size without any warehoused product. The company that I worked for would then be penalized for being unable to meet both WalMart's price and quantity demands. I see that now Sterilite is now their chief plastics supplier, and watch and see if they don't run them out of business with their ludicrious pricing demands. It's only a matter of time.

Why did your company keep its contract with Walmart if it wasn't profitable or feasible??

You make it seem like you were forced to do business with WM. Need I remind you that your business with them was VOLUNTARY - how can you possibly complain about a voluntary agreement???