Because of the very aggressive way the walmart drives their vendors to deliver at lower cost, some vendors, even large ones have to cut corners and manufacture products at a lower quality to remain in the walnut family of vendors!
Walmart has been responsible for more manufacturing moving to China and it's neighbors than any other company in the world.
Let me point out that walmart has never instructed a company to move their manufacturing abroad, they only suggest it to the vendor as a way to cut manufacturing cost. Thus driving unemployment up as factories close!
On an average product walmart makes 2 times the profit as the company that designed and manufactured it! Sounds wrong to me!
Here are a couple facts that people don,t realize: (pulled out of a Times AP article)
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute.
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
6. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.
So if your want quality... don't go to walmart!