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Re:Microsoft's Anti-Mac Ads Are Starting To Work by jamesbritt on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @01:57PM (#617241)
"... while Wal-Mart's products are invariably designed to be cheap and fall apart in a few months so you can go back to Wal-Mart and buy another."

Maybe I don't shop enough at Wal-mart's, but I've not experienced that. They do sell some low-cost/low-quality items, but they also have name-brand items, but typically cheaper than, say, Safeway or Walgreen's.

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Re:Microsoft's Anti-Mac Ads Are Starting To Work by philwelch on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @02:10PM (#617277)
If you're sure it's the same item, that's fine. Then again, they also sell cheaper versions of the same brand (Levi's for instance) that are pretty crap.

I actually went to Wal-Mart yesterday. There are things they do right (logistics) but in general, I don't buy a product at Wal-Mart unless I'm absolutely certain it's completely identical to a product I can get somewhere else, and that I know is durable.

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