popowich
Saturday, December 8th, 2007, 02:26 PM
Hello,
An interesting thing happened to me at Walmart a week or two ago. I was in there to pick up a printer that could also do some scanning and print out some decent photo quality pictures. For these kinds of things I'll usually do a little research and try to find the best product to get for the buck, but I wanted to pick it up right away and went to Walmart. I was about to grab one of the cheaper Lexmark's at $75 that had several memory card slots for directly printing pictures from your camera's memory card. As I went to grab the box, a Kodak person working the store stopped me. The explained how their $100 was much better quality (yeah yeah whatever) but how the real savings was over time in that the Kodak brand ink refills are much cheaper than HP and Lexmark. They went on to let me know that the $200 pretty cool model can be found for $100 on sale at many places. Walmart was already sold out of them that day. They ended up stopping me from making any purchase at all, but the concept of a supplier having people working the aisles in walmart trying to convince shoppers to buy their company's products was interesting to me.
-Raymond
An interesting thing happened to me at Walmart a week or two ago. I was in there to pick up a printer that could also do some scanning and print out some decent photo quality pictures. For these kinds of things I'll usually do a little research and try to find the best product to get for the buck, but I wanted to pick it up right away and went to Walmart. I was about to grab one of the cheaper Lexmark's at $75 that had several memory card slots for directly printing pictures from your camera's memory card. As I went to grab the box, a Kodak person working the store stopped me. The explained how their $100 was much better quality (yeah yeah whatever) but how the real savings was over time in that the Kodak brand ink refills are much cheaper than HP and Lexmark. They went on to let me know that the $200 pretty cool model can be found for $100 on sale at many places. Walmart was already sold out of them that day. They ended up stopping me from making any purchase at all, but the concept of a supplier having people working the aisles in walmart trying to convince shoppers to buy their company's products was interesting to me.
-Raymond