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well one example were the lawnmowers our family was looking at. went to walmart, and sure the mowers were $20-50 cheaper, but they looked cheaper and felt cheaper. Like they'd fall apart abotu 2 years sooner than the other mowers we looked at to. Soap is Soap.
There was a story about the toy industry not playing with walmart because it was putting toy stores like KayBee and Toys R Us out of business. Basically, many toy manufacturers would only sell the "bland" toys to walmart, and ship all the limited editions, newer versions, to the toy stores. Walmart would also be late in getting any of the new toys, so the other toy stores would have a lead on them. The idea being to drive toy customers to the toy stores.
Not to sure if they're still doing this though, I think the story about them doing that is several months old at the least.
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