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![]() "Alan Street" wrote in message ... $4 billion dollar deals are pretty rare. Not any more! Wal-Mart alone does 100 of those each year. |
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![]() "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Alan Street" wrote in message ... $4 billion dollar deals are pretty rare. Not any more! Wal-Mart alone does 100 of those each year. Name one. Mike MU-2 |
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![]() "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message k.net... "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Alan Street" wrote in message ... $4 billion dollar deals are pretty rare. Not any more! Wal-Mart alone does 100 of those each year. Name one. Kimberly Clark, RubberMaid... |
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Those are suppliers, not "deals".
Mike MU-2 "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message k.net... "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Alan Street" wrote in message ... $4 billion dollar deals are pretty rare. Not any more! Wal-Mart alone does 100 of those each year. Name one. Kimberly Clark, RubberMaid... |
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![]() "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message k.net... Those are suppliers, not "deals". And just how do they manage to "Supply" the company without working out a deal? |
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![]() "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message k.net... Those are suppliers, not "deals". And just how do they manage to "Supply" the company without working out a deal? Walmart has never signed a single $4B deal AFAIK. Period. Furthermore I doubt that *any* supplier has ever lost Walmart as a customer because they could not arrive somewhere at a particular time. Mike MU-2 |
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![]() "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message k.net... "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message k.net... Those are suppliers, not "deals". And just how do they manage to "Supply" the company without working out a deal? Walmart has never signed a single $4B deal AFAIK. The two I mentioned. Wal-Mart was perhaps the first compnay to do long term deals with their vendors, which is why they were able to get fabulous deals. Period. Furthermore I doubt that *any* supplier has ever lost Walmart as a customer because they could not arrive somewhere at a particular time. Read Walton's biography. |
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Mike Rapoport wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... Those are suppliers, not "deals". And just how do they manage to "Supply" the company without working out a deal? Walmart has never signed a single $4B deal AFAIK. Period. Furthermore I doubt that *any* supplier has ever lost Walmart as a customer because they could not arrive somewhere at a particular time. You know, it doesn't really make a damn bit of difference what deals Walmart has or has not made, nor does it matter what any other company has or has not done. The original point was that started this whole waste of time was the fact that sometimes the "economical" choice winds up losing you money. This is true whether or not the original example has ever actually been represented in real life, and it's something that every company either knows intuitively or soon learns in sorry detail. Furthermore, in the engineering management world, when a request for bids says that bids must be received by such-and-such time, then they better be there at that time. Bids that aren't received on time are simply not considered - there are usually plenty of bidders who do get their bids in on time, and if not, the client will probably re-start the bidding process. Rich Lemert |
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Don't know about $4 billion deals, but there are plenty of examples
where uncertainties in airline schedule has increased customer costs. For instance, I used to be able to take an early flight and be on time for a morning meeting in DC, and return the same day. I can't do that anymore. Now I have leave on the previous evening and stay at a hotel. I have, on many occasions, spent more time waiting in airports than it would have taken me to drive that distance. It still does not make it worthwhile to charter an airplane, but I can see how it might for someone else. If your time is worth a few thousand $ per hour, chartering might be well worth it. "Mike Rapoport" wrote in k.net: "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message k.net... Those are suppliers, not "deals". And just how do they manage to "Supply" the company without working out a deal? Walmart has never signed a single $4B deal AFAIK. Period. Furthermore I doubt that *any* supplier has ever lost Walmart as a customer because they could not arrive somewhere at a particular time. Mike MU-2 |
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In article , Matt Barrow
wrote: € "Alan Street" wrote in message € ... € € $4 billion dollar deals are pretty rare. € € Not any more! Wal-Mart alone does 100 of those each year. € € € That would imply about $400 billion a year turnover. According to WalMart's financial statements, their total turnover was $259 billion last year. ( http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=WMT&annual ). |
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