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This is a topic that was brought to my attention last night and again this morning...Its irritating and I think American's should think about this one......Its time to get back to the "right things to do" not the "get rich quick things to do" that usually do nothing but end up breaking you....and all you business owners out there know what I'm talking about...we've all done it. We take risk, hope for a big payday, and the only one that ever makes out is the crook that has more money than you...in this case.....Wal-Mart......
"Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer of these products, and reciprocally, Wal-Mart controls a large and increasing share of the business done by almost every major consumer-products company: 28.3% of Dial's (soap products); 24% of Del Monte Foods'; 23% of Clorox's (bleaches and cleaners); and 23% of Revlon's (cosmetics). It controls one-fifth or more of the business done by Proctor & Gamble (household products and soaps); Levi Strauss (jeans and clothing); and Newell Rubbermaid (household consumer rubber products). That is, Wal-Mart is all of these firms' biggest outlet, by a wide margin.
This gives Wal-Mart tremendous leverage over all its producers/suppliers, even though many of them are in the Fortune 500. Twenty years ago, the supplier of products went to Wal-Mart, and told Wal-Mart the price to charge for each product. Today, Wal-Mart "co-determines" the price; it tells the supplier what type of product it wants, how to arrange its inventory, what sort of product line to develop. Because Wal-Mart determines how much shelf space each supplier receives, it has life-and-death control over that supplier. If Wal-Mart says that it wants a product's price to be lowered by 20-25%, that supplier will be forced to outsource an increasing share of its production.
Newell Rubbermaid is the largest producer of consumer rubber products in the United States, and Wal-Mart sells by far the largest volume of Rubbermaid products of any retail store. In January 2001, Joseph Galli was appointed the new chief executive officer of Rubbermaid, and he and his staff had an intensive series of meetings with Wal-Mart management on what products Rubbermaid should bring on line, including Wal-Mart's not-so-subtle suggestions about the price of the products. Since January 2001, Rubbermaid has shut down 69 out of its 400 facilities, and fired 11,000 workers. The equity research director at Associated Trust & Co., C. Mark Heaseldon, bluntly stated the reason, "To be able to meet the demands from key customers, like Wal-Mart ... [Rubbermaid has] to become competitive in price." He added that Galli would have to "shift about 50% of production to low-cost countries." This could force the closure of an additional 131 Rubbermaid facilities, and the firing of an additional 20,000 workers.."
Rubbermaid DO NOT send your jobs to other countries because Wal-mart says so !! Build a Rubbermaid OUTLET right next door to Wal-mart, its cheaper than moving to another country and it will give much needed employment to the American workers... STAND ON YOUR OWN GREAT RUBBERMAID PRODUCTS AND PRINCIPLES !! Don't be a Supply WHORE to Wal-mart !!!!! ...Just say NO !!....
Americans we MUST, stop the GREED, we MUST get back to basics...there is plenty of business for everyone to make a living...do you really have to have the whole pie instead of 1/2 of it...so someone else can have 1/2 of the business and feed their family too. Lets work together, to STOP Monopolies that bully and crush American Small Business like Wal-Mart has done since Sam Walton died !! STOP SUPPLYING WAL-MART !!!! We need to come together and Small Business must BOOST and SUPPORT other Small Business.....NO MORE SUPPORTING THE MONOPOLIES Like Wal-Mart and Cintas Uniforms (more on this later) and others.....ENOUGH is Enough !!
How many more American Businesses must fall into Bankruptcy and Close because of Wal-Marts "PIMP" tactics. Cannon towels (out of business due to Wal-Mart), it goes on and on....ENOUGH...JUST SAY NO TO WAL-MART !! Shop at Smaller Stores like Local Business...lets hit Wal-Mart where it HURTS !
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Cintas Uniform is another Monopoly in the making....They are the largest Uniform Company in the USA and their products are crap. The wrap small businesses into sales contracts that act like a Boa Constrictor, they squeeze and squeeze until their customers just give in and pay them.
My experience with Cintas was as a competitor. I've seen Cintas clothing show up at customer locations with holes as big as golf balls in them AND with the wrong logos on the shirts....yet Cintas still charges 3 times what small uniform companies currently charge. And when they do have discounts the clothes last for about a week. I've seen them put large customers into contracts and Cintas uses fabric that is not available to anyone else so there is no "taking over the business or competition". They have NO face to face CUSTOMER SERVICE unless its time to "take over" a customer, then they are there every day. Once the account is landed they don't come back to service them, its all by phone, and for heavens sake watch your billing like a hawk !!
I've seen customers of Cintas almost in TEARS because Cintas put them into a Contract for 5 years with big promises and now they are loosing their shirts (literally) because Cintas makes the decisions on whether its time to replace a shirt or pants because of wear or damage, and YOU (customer), just get the arbitrary BILL to pay with no notice in advance of new product being issued to your employees. And if its a "laundry program contract" forget about saving any money people !! Cintas has you HOG TIED.
Currently Cintas is the ranking member of a Purchasing group called Avendra which services many Hotels and Restaurants. This "purchasing group" is run by high level Executives that used to work for Marriott Corp. So lets recap here.....we have ex-hotel executives running a purchasing group using Cintas as one of their MAIN suppliers and they sell to HOTELS and RESTAURANTS.....whats wrong with THIS picture ??
Not only is all this true, but the "purchasing group" Avendra, gives HUGE kick-backs at the end of the year to the Owners of the businesses they supply. Not EVERY customer gets the cash.....only "a select group of customers", hint hint.... huge Hotels.....are you following me here...... Major hotel Execs start a purchasing group that supplies their EX EMPLOYER and gives out "HUGE CHECKS" at the end of the YEAR!! What is Wrong with the PICTURE PEOPLE ???!!!!! I guess this is one way to guarantee to keep the business coming in to Cintas and Avendra by the Owners of the Hotels and Restaurants.
Does CASH CHURN come to mind ??...... And of course as in ALL Good MONOPOLIES.... the LOCAL businesses fall to the wayside...because Avendra only accepts "select suppliers" for the program and "select customers" for the kick backs.......Do the words "FREEZE OUT" and "Discrimination" come to mind ?? It SHOULD !!
The only ones that can make a difference is YOU the Consumer ! Stop buying from these MONOPOLIES, they are killing Small Business. There practices are UNFAIR and in some cases UNLAWFUL..... but YOU are the only one that can MAKE THIS CHANGE !
Call a LOCAL Supplier TODAY !!! Help Save America NOW !!!
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