Wal-Mart plans ad campaign to woo back shoppers!

[Bravo Zulu]

The campaign bears the slogan "Low Prices. Every Day. On Everything."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WAL_MART_LOW_PRICE_CAMPAIGN?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[joeunderdog]

1. Low wages. Every day. For everyone.

Except the Waltons, of course.

[leftstreet]

2. "We have lost our customer confidence ...in having the lowest price,"

I wonder if that's really true

Maybe, just MAYBE, no one has any expendable cash!?

[Mopar151]

4. It's twoo, it's twoo.....

to quote from the article:

Wal-Mart also increasing the products it stocks by 8,500 items, or 11 percent in an average store, Duncan said. In some categories, the selection will be more than before its sweeping efforts to slash inventory, he said.

The changes are bringing back customers' favorite local food and favorite brands in household basics as well as in general merchandise like consumer electronics. Some of the changes are tailored to local markets. In Phoenix, for example, shoppers will find pool supplies and outdoor lawn and garden year round

Wally World's move upmarket last year did not do them any favors with their core customers. Selection of many staple items was/is way down, and things are harder to find in the new store layouts.

[Wounded Bear]

3. You can't drive prices low enough.....

to support an economy on double digit unemployment.

[DJ13]

5. Even Target is cheaper now by 10 to 15%

A price match policy shows they arent serious.

[upi402]

6. Hillary was on the board of Wal-Mart, right?

maybe they have a gig for her gutting wages and trade law as a new reality show

[Sherman A1]

7. Wal Mart took a real beating as it cut out product lines

culling them with a meat axe approach rather than just trimming out items that don't sell.

People looking for those products simply moved to other stores that carried them and elected to move more of their shopping to those other stores.

At least that is what I understood to have happened.