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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by pan6467
Rubbermaid WAS SELLING. WTF........ ok I own a store, I'm selling widgets made by company A and they are selling great. My customers don't complain about the price.... they're satisfied with the quality of the product and pay the price asked.
But I go and buy part of company A's competition, company B and promote them.
People still buy company A's product because it is superior and company B's product sits there unsold.
So I lower the price on company A's product to where they lose money and tell them to either accept it or be pulled. I know what the answer will be so I load up on company B.
I pull company A, load up on company B. Then since I own part of company B, I reap the rewards.
By pulling company A, I also know they have to raise their prices at my competitors stores also, thereby making me more suitable because I offer lower prices.
To say this is ok or this is how business is ran and be accepting of it, is suicidal to the economy.
Sooooooo if people couldn't tell the difference in quality, why did Rubbermaid with a higher price still outsell Sterilite, until Wal*Mart had to set a price and literally pull them off the shelves?????????
There is no way to defend this except for the "well the stock now is....."
or wellll noone notices quality they just look at price....... BULLSHIT, that was NOT the case. The people WERE BUYING it and leaving the cheaper product on the shelves.
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So the garment center imploded on it's own as did Rubbermaid. NY historically had effective and efficient garment workers, union and non union.
Companies want profitability, public or private.
If people wanted rubbermaid products they could have easily bought them ELSEWHERE. People chose to not. It's quite simple. If I want a particular brand where I care about brand, that's what I look for.
Personally I don't like the Sterilite, I find it inferior in quality for my long term storage solutions which have the most finite space. But simple organizational boxes, the Sterilite is sufficient. At Target I see both products on the shelves and I buy what is my needs which is mostly about cost. When I've needed to replace the rubbermaid product I will replace it as such (I've had to do so already once for some reason which I don't remember.)
But again, I'm going to defer to the consumer and market forces.
Whole Foods has shut down cheaper markets around Union Square. Trader Joe's opened up not too far away and it may jeopardize another couple markets where the CHEAPER goods are located.
People vote with their wallets. Plain and simple.
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