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Originally Posted by cdavisdb
What discount houses do is suck suppliers in with promise of big volume. Once they gear up production and get hooked on the volume, Walmart starts cutting what they will pay, and cutting, and cutting. Pretty soon the supplier can't make a decent product for what Walmart pays, but still needs the volume, so they cut quality. Hence my Igloo and Blue Heron's. Maybe Fr Frank got one of the better quality ones.
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And that's exactly what the big box home centers like Home Depot and Lowes do to their vendors.
I was a buyer for a large hardware wholesaler and when vendors tried to sell me a line,many would say "We don't sell to Home Depot".
My reply was "you mean Home depot won't give you an order"Eventually they all succumbed to the big box and mass merchant whores.The independent stores were put out of business by these mega retailers.
I never buy anything from Walmart,and try not to buy at Home depot,although it's hard not to as they in many cases are the only game around.I'd rather pay twenty bucks more at a local merchant.
AS for inexpensive coolers,I like Coleman much better than Igloo.Why does Igloo even bother putting the cheezy latches on their coolers?,they break off or don't work after two days anyway.