If there’s one thing Wal-Mart does well, it’s selectively placing product in strategic fashion. However, they don’t seem to want to have to maintain the product or its displays.
All they have to do to clear out a selected item, let’s say, expired cookies, for instance, is place the display unit in such a manner that everyone will notice it. Usually this means the middle of an aisle, creating two smaller aisles that irritate the average shopper. Why is this? Because on either smaller aisle will be a fatty leaning on a cart, looking at the selected item, thus creating a long trip around the side aisles to get around, or waiting impatiently for big butt to move. OH, LOOK IT SAYS ROLLBACK – when the original price was 2.99, now it’s ‘rolled back’ to 2.89. Woo. Load up lard butts. Yet this marketing ploy works. Come back the next day and you will see the shelf is now half full.
Anyway, my original point was a different story. Being spring time, I like to find good, cheap bedding plants. Wal-Mart does get them first, and as long as you go right as soon as they get the shipment, the plants are a fantastic deal, and healthy. Until Wal-Mart can do as they please with them.
Some of these plants you would have to pay double on elsewhere if you wait. Actually, most. So in general it’s best to load up before they destroy them. I live in a climate where it still freezes at night until mid-May, so the store has to leave the shelves full of plants indoors. This means they aren’t getting sun obviously… but they could get water. However, I guess Wal-Mart doesn’t realize these are living plants.
Remember Wal-Mart’s golden rule – PUSH THE PRODUCT!!!
You can tell all they want to do is sell the plants, before they have to give them any care. It’s actually quite disgusting. So I got my plants, not only because they were cheap, but really, to save them from the complete lack of care they were about to receive.
About a week later, I thought I’d check them out again in case they got some different types to load up on. Oh, they did… but now they were abusing their power. One tomato plant for almost two dollars. Why is this? Because for some reason around here people will pay anything for tomato plants. I don’t get it. But I do know later you can get four packs for the same price at other places. So I definitely passed on that. Then the plants that were left over from last time were still there. I didn’t know whether to be angry or laugh at the incompetence.
These poor plants were clearly not watered ever since the first time I went. They were wilted and some were dead. They just leave them there on display. “Two dollars for dead plants that we don’t care about!!!”
Oh, and did I forget to mention that they use extremely cheap soil that dries up super fast? It’s horrible. If you buy plants there transplant them right away. It’s amazing how a company with so much money will totally cheap out to save money… and don’t care if they lose plants aka profit?!
Anyway, if you know what you are dealing with you can get great deals. But, with Wal-mart, you have to know your stuff.
