Guest guest Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 When you go into a chain store, such as WalMart, Hancocks, Joannes etc. and see the fabric significantly less " for the same fabric " then the local fabric or quilt shop, be aware that you are often buying seconds, or often the same pattern of inferior griege goods. One Mfg, so they tell me, RJR will not sell first quality fabric to chains, so if you see RJR in the chain store they got the fabric out of the seconds bin. I believe in supporting my local fabric/quilt shop. Or at least buying from a reputable quilt shop/fabric shop on line. Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Most of Walmart buys is seconds or irregulars. One of my jobs there was to remove the little arrows on the clothing which pointed out the irregularities. Sometimes there were half a dozen on 1 pair of jeans. > > When you go into a chain store, such as WalMart, Hancocks, Joannes etc. > and see the fabric significantly less " for the same fabric " then the > local fabric or quilt shop, be aware that you are often buying seconds, > or often the same pattern of inferior griege goods. One Mfg, so they > tell me, RJR will not sell first quality fabric to chains, so if you see > RJR in the chain store they got the fabric out of the seconds bin. I > believe in supporting my local fabric/quilt shop. Or at least buying > from a reputable quilt shop/fabric shop on line. > Ruth > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 " Most of Walmart buys is seconds or irregulars " I STRONGLY disagree with this statement only because I use to work for a company that does ALL of the testing (in regards to it's clothing, bedding, and even in the fabric dept) and seconds WERE NOT ACCEPTABLE!! If a supplier submitted items for testing that appeared to be seconds, that item failed testing. Once an item failed testing it did not end up in the store until the problem had been corrected or sometimes the order for that item would be canceled and sent back to the supplier at their expense. And to ensure that samples were consistent they would also be pulled from the store at random and from different stores all over the country to ensure that the merchandise was consistent through out the testing process. Also, it is the supplier not WalMart that has to pay for testing before the item can be shipped to the store so if they want there product in the store they have to follow the rules and make sure they have all good passing reports. Sometimes the individual stores are allowed to make local purchases which would not fall under the testing process and maybe those could have been seconds I'm not saying they were I am just saying that maybe they could be. I no longer work for this company, but I know that the testing process is still in place because I still have several friends that work for the same company and I also know that this testing process has been in place for at least 16 years. Believe me I am not WalMart lover, I just didn't want this misrepresentation out there. ________________________________________________________________________________\ ____ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Well perhaps " seconds " was the incorrect word. I apologise. Perhaps " irregulars " would be the correct term. I wish I had kept the note from the assistant manager which told me to be sure to remove all of the little arrow stickers pointing out flaws, from the clothing as we unpacked it. The only line of clothing free from those stickers was the " " line. The jeans had the most. I will definately crack the dictionary next time before posting to be sure I am using the right term. Thank you. > > " Most of Walmart buys is seconds or irregulars " > > I STRONGLY disagree with this statement < Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I knew what you meant! Thanks for the tip! Jane --- Burntwitch <burntwitch@...> wrote: > Well perhaps " seconds " was the incorrect word. I > apologise. Perhaps > " irregulars " would be the correct term. I wish I had > kept the note > from the assistant manager which told me to be sure > to remove all of > the little arrow stickers pointing out flaws, from > the clothing as we > unpacked it. The only line of clothing free from > those stickers was > the " " line. The jeans had the most. I will > definately crack > the dictionary next time before posting to be sure I > am using the > right term. Thank you. > > > > > > " Most of Walmart buys is seconds or irregulars " > > > > I STRONGLY disagree with this statement < > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 hmmm irregulars sure sound like seconds to me - when I worked at KMART in women's ready to wear, many years ago, we never had seconds or irregulars - go figure... willow --- Burntwitch <burntwitch@...> wrote: > Well perhaps " seconds " was the incorrect word. I > apologise. Perhaps > " irregulars " would be the correct term. I wish I had > kept the note > from the assistant manager which told me to be sure > to remove all of > the little arrow stickers pointing out flaws, from > the clothing as we > unpacked it. The only line of clothing free from > those stickers was > the " " line. The jeans had the most. I will > definately crack > the dictionary next time before posting to be sure I > am using the > right term. Thank you. > > > > > > " Most of Walmart buys is seconds or irregulars " > > > > I STRONGLY disagree with this statement < > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 This very well could have been true for this walmart , who is to say, she is reporting her personal experience. My MIL was a store manager and now is a district manager for walmart. If she received goods with flaws she has a long process of returning said goods to manufacturer, they werent even allowed to sale price/clearance and send to floor, or buy flawed goods for themselves.. they all had to be filed as damaged/received and sent back. Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 You are welcome. I loved the line of clothing from the first day it arrived. The fabrics felt better ( there were no stupid little stickers to peel off ) and they just look like they are made better (30 years of sewing) > > > > > > " Most of Walmart buys is seconds or irregulars " > > > > > > I STRONGLY disagree with this statement < > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Thats probably because KMart buys better quality from their suppliers. Target clothes are extremely nice too. > > > > > > " Most of Walmart buys is seconds or irregulars " > > > > > > I STRONGLY disagree with this statement < > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 oh yea - I bot lots n lots of clothes off targets clearance racks for my boys! lol w --- Burntwitch <burntwitch@...> wrote: > Thats probably because KMart buys better quality > from their > suppliers. Target clothes are extremely nice too. > > > > > > > > > > > " Most of Walmart buys is seconds or > irregulars " > > > > > > > > I STRONGLY disagree with this statement < > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 28, 2007 Report Share Posted July 28, 2007 " Thats probably because KMart buys better quality from their suppliers. Target clothes are extremely nice too. " Actually, you would be amazed to find out that most of the suppliers sell items to both Wal-Mart, Target and K-mart simply only changing brand labels. When I was working the the testing lab we would also do comparisons of items between different retailers From wal-mart to dillards, old navy, gap, kmart etc. and wal-marts products would sometimes out perform the higher end products. Anyway, like it was mention before, I am only relaying what i know from my personal experiences from working with this testing company and I know that Wal-mart has done a lot to improve the garments that they put out on the floor and I would assume regardless of where you purchase an item, if it were to have a defect of any kind it would be returned otherwise how are retailers to know that they have a defective product or supplier? PS - I know of one instance where a particular supplier kept sending in defect items and would manipulate the system in order to get their product on the floor well the WM buyer stopped using them totally because of this. About a year later they started selling to Kmart because I recognized the brand label and everything that used when selling to WM. The products still had the same poor workmanship that I saw then and I still see it several years later. ·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.....·´)¸.·*).·´`· «·´¨*·.¸¸. ¸¸.·*¨`·» ·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·***·..)`·.¸).·´`· your Premier Designs Jewelry lady Re: OT WalMart Thats probably because KMart buys better quality from their suppliers. Target clothes are extremely nice too. > > > > > > " Most of Walmart buys is seconds or irregulars " > > > > > > I STRONGLY disagree with this statement < > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________\ ____ Get the toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar./toolbar/features/mail/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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