Wal-Mart Auto Tire Scam

On 2016-03-18, Scott Dorsey > wrote:
> Roger Blake > wrote:
>>On 2016-03-17, Scott Dorsey > wrote:
>>> _Everything_ at Wal-Mart is like this. They specialize in cheapened-down
>>> versions of legitimate products.
>>
>>Other big-box stores do the same thing. That "John Deere" garden tractor
>>at Home Depot or Lowes is a "value-engineered" product actually built by
>>another company under license. (Usually MTD.) Likewise with things like
>>name-brand water heaters etc. at those stores. They are special cost-cut
>>versions that you'll be hard-pressed to get parts and service for later.
>
> Oh, absolutely. After all, they have to compete with Wal-Mart!

Except the big stores have been doing this for longer than walmart has
been around. It's just more obvious now because the level of cost
reduction has to be all that more severe.