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Re:Apple's Supply Chain Secret by dangrossman on Friday November 04, 2011 @03:03AM (#3195226)
I read from the fingers of a farm owner about Wal-Mart regularly doing things like committing to buy all of a farm's output of some crop, setting a pickup date, then being days late and refusing to pay for what spoiled in the crates waiting for the truck that didn't come.
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Re:Apple's Supply Chain Secret by akg1 on Friday November 04, 2011 @01:10PM (#3196838)
How can this be "regularly" happening? Wouldn't farmers stop selling to walmart if this happened even once?

And if they "committed" to buying all the output, why weren't there repercussions from breaking that commitment?

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Re:Apple's Supply Chain Secret by lallysingh on Friday November 04, 2011 @06:04PM (#3197881)
It's not like huge customers for your crop are necessarily easy to get. And Walmart did buy all the non-spoiled output; they probably had the contract well-written to let them get away with what they did.
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