Adding value to your carrots

[madfranks]

First take some of these:

2311

Sell them to wal-mart where they will clean them, remove the greens, chop them up and can them:

2312

That's how you do it. ;D

[ximmy]

As a former employee of a vegetable farm, let me give you an explanation of how selling vegetables to Wal-Mart works.
First you make an agreement with Wal-Mart to sell them X bushels of produce at Y price/bushel. You spend the entire week ramping up production, bringing in more pickers and hiring more packers to ensure you get your X bushels of product. You are especially picky about the quality of your product, because Wal-Mart's business represents a dynamic increase in sales and you want to impress them. You have everything picked, packed and prepped for Wal-Mart's pick-up (they always want to make the pick-up, rather than pay you to deliver) on Friday.
Next, Friday comes and goes, Wal-Marts truck never shows up. In fact, it doesn't show up for 4 days, all the while your fresh produce, which Wal-Mart has signed an agreement to buy and pick up on Friday, is rotting in the box. Nobody at Wal-Mart knows why the truck hasn't arrived, but they're rerouting to you immediately, assuring you that you will not be held responsible for the losses. Tuesday roles around and the Wal-Mart truck shows up at 6pm and hour after you usually close up and go home. You've now paid your entire company for an extra hour of work, as you wait for the promised truck to arrive. It finally does arrive, and it comes with a Wal-Mart inspector.
Now the fun begins. The Wal-Mart inspector starts going through the produce that you picked and prepped for a Friday pick-up, at 6:30pm Tuesday. He/she immediately begins marking crates as below agreed upon quality, assuring you that you will be compensated full-price for these crates, and that he/she is just marking them so that the produce that is below grade is sent to Mexico or something. Finally, the inspector allows the fruit to be packed into Wal-Mart's non-refrigerated truck at about 8 o'clock. Again, you're paying your employees to wait to do this the whole time. They close up the truck, and tell you that you should receive your payment in a few weeks, and have you sign a receipt.
This is where it gets fun. The truck doesn't take the fruit to the nearest refrigerated Wal-Mart Distribution Center. Instead, it goes another day out of its way, to unload. When it gets there, the unrefrigerated fruit is inspected again. It's now been 5 or 6 days since it was supposed to be delivered to the refrigerated distributorship and there's been about a 30% loss of product. You're contacted by Wal-Mart and told that the product was not in the agreed upon condition and that they will be deducting a loss-penalty of 50% to your agreed upon price and will not be paying for the 30% of lost product. However, they will keep that lost product and use it in some sort of paste or juice or other form of private label Great Value product that can use the product. You protest Wal-Mart's unilateral negotiation and they tell you that they can refuse delivery of the product and have it shipped back to you, but you'll pay for the shipping (Pay Wal-Mart's trucks, not yours). You threaten to sue, and they remind you that they have a 100millon dollar retainer with the very best lawyers money can buy, and that while you will probably win the case, you'll be in litigation for at least 10 years (because Wal-Mart's already paying these guys anyways) and at best you'll get your agreed upon price, while paying your own lawyers $400/hour for 10 years to sue them for what amounts to $50,000.
So you swallow your pride, you take your 75% loss on the signed contract and then they ask you if you'll be able to make your next shipment, as per your contract, Wal-Mart has the ability to extend, however, because China is selling them Lead contaminated produce at 10% what you're selling, they're renegotiating the prices for "market value"


http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/k2lsv/explanation_of_why_walmarts_produce_sucks_ass/

[ximmy]

Oh-oh

Voluntary Recall of Great Value!


AUBURNDALE, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Florida Brewery, Inc. is recalling certain lots of Goya, Great Value, Hatuey, Mr. Special, Polar, Publix, Regal, and SuperMax brand non-alcoholic malta beverages packaged in 7-oz bottles because glass on the exterior of the bottles may break when the twist-off cap is removed from the bottle and can result in cuts to the mouth. To date, the Company has received two reports of consumers experiencing cuts to the mouth.

http://www.bevnet.com/news/2012/voluntary-recall-of-goya-great-value-hatuey-mr-special-polar-publix-regal-and-supermax-brand-malta-beverages-in-7-oz-bottles-due-to-possible-health-risk

[solid]

Great Value Truth.

Fuck Walmart.

[Libertytree]

I hear ya Solid but damn man, if I can save $15 bucks I have to do it. $15 doesn't sound like a lot of money but sometimes it's relative. In another GV thread I referenced WM and by going there I saved $15, should I NOT save it? I don't want to go there but survival means being frugal and cost conscious.

[solid]

I don't want to go there but survival means being frugal and cost conscious.

This is the reason why walmart is getting BIGGER, while we are getting smaller...

They are raping this country. They have been. We bought into it. We allowed it to happen.

Our master is not FRN's, or .Gov, it's Walmart. They have what we need.

Goddamnit. This shit pisses me off to no end. All the family businesses destroyed....towns pillaged. And WE let it happen!!

Fuck, I need to get off the internet.

[Libertytree]

This is the reason why walmart is getting BIGGER, while we are getting smaller...

They are raping this country. They have been. We bought into it. We allowed it to happen.

Our master is not FRN's, or .Gov, it's Walmart. They have what we need.

Goddamnit. This shit pisses me off to no end. All the family businesses destroyed....towns pillaged. And WE let it happen!!

Fuck, I need to get off the internet.

I spend $$ at every mom and pop shop I can and I try hard to! but there are some things that just ain't in that realm, like today...I wanted to buy 3 cs of Bud, it was 20.99 at Publix and 16.97 at WM, what would you do? The pop I bought was 50% less than at the Publix. I HATE it as much as you do!

[solid]

LT, I don't want to judge others. I understand what you are saying.

I haven't set foot in a walmart in years. I'll pay more elsewhere, even if it hurts. I feel if I gave Walmart any of my earnings, I'd lose a bit of my soul. Not to sound melodramatic, but a part of me would be lost.

Fuck them, and fuck their prices.

I work hard for my worthless dollars, I'll hand those over to someone who's worth it, imo. Even if my crap paper dollars don't go as far. My two bits. I don't want to judge anyone, for their choices. That's their choices. I'll stand by mine.

[Libertytree]

in this case its about handing one corp your money over another, both American corps, for products that are made here too. If I had other choices that'd be great but there isn't really, everything seems to be a corp..damnit!