Happens all the time.  Go to their small appliance section, look at a given item, say a kitchen mixer.  Write down the brand name, the model name, the model number, and the specs.  Take that information to the web site for the company of the brand name.  Look up the same item.  You won't find the model number you wrote down, but you will find the model name, with another number.  Compare the specs.  They are different, more powerful motor for example.  Only WalMart has cheaper item -- it is not for sale on the general market.

Sears practiced this brand of buying and marketing for years, too.

---- Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MTS.NET> wrote:
> You mean apples aren't apples at Walmart?  They can't seriously sell a different item with the same name, can they?
>
> On 2010-06-13, at 4:09 PM, Thomas Buese wrote:
>
> > I wonder if Wally World gets a cheaper grade of oil from their name
> > brand oil suppliers like they do w/ their tires so that they can sell
> > it much cheaper than their competitors & the public doesn't know the
> > difference?
> >
> > YMMV,
> >
> > Mr. BZ-sometimes you get what you pay for?
> >
> >
> > On Jun 13, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Jeff Schwaia wrote:
> >
> >> Just an FYI...  Castrol GTX 20w-50 is only $13 for 5 quarts at Wally
> >> World
> >> right now.  Pretty good price.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Jeff

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David McNeely