You can buy a stinkin’ gallon of pickles for $2.97!
That last post learnt me of FastCompany the magazine, and I ran into this great piece: The Walmart You Don’t Know bashing 
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Wal-Mart priced it at $2.97–a year’s supply of pickles for less than $3! “They were using it as a ’statement’ item,” says Pat Hunn, who calls himself the “mad scientist” of Vlasic’s gallon jar. “Wal-Mart was putting it before consumers, saying, This represents what Wal-Mart’s about. You can buy a stinkin’ gallon of pickles for $2.97. And it’s the nation’s number-one brand.”
What really got me going on this topic is the theme of the Snapper post…It hurts companies to sell out their brand names to walmart for whatever the sales numbers are.
I’ve bought one of those enormous things of pickles for $2.97 from walmart last year, they sucked. They were much worse than some others I bought from the regular grocery store. The best part is that they were probably fine before the rediculous Walmart all-night-stocking system got ahold of them (and they were, for example, left outside on a pallette for a week or something).