Brian Junyor The Blog

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Hmm, I didn't see where they asked him to lower his price. Actually, I missed the entire second page of the article.

Seems he did exactly what I said, as far as telling 'em where to stick it. Which is good in my opinion. If more vendors did that when asked to lower quality, we'd not have the disposable product mentality we do now.

And I'm glad he did say that he's not anti-Wal-Mart. W-M gets bashed a lot, but it's not like they're holding a gun to anyone's head to get them to do business with them.

Keep in mind the fact that they wanted him to lower his price and that would put him at losing money. How is that cutting off your nose to spite your face? looks more like just good business. I work with walmart and they are horrible to the vendors as well as their suppliers. And I really do not know why LS&Co; even considered let alone implemented any type of deal with them.

Well, while I can see where he's coming from, I don't understand why he thinks that his quality would necessarily suffer. If a customer wants a cheapie lawnmower, he can get a cheapie lawnmower at W-M. If he wants quality, he could get the more expensive Snapper - at W-M. If W-M began to pressure him to lower costs or cut corners, then I could understand him telling them to stick it where the sun don't shine. I really think that this is a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face.