Wonder who made this mistake at WalMart?
Wife and I went shopping the other night at a WalMart Store in Kentucky. There are no taxes on food there. Going down our grocery list, I discovered that we needed coffee. Normally, I would buy my coffee only at Krogers. Since we were totally out, I thought I would buy a small can of coffee, until I made it to a Krogers store. In checking out the cans of coffee displayed, I saw something I still do not believe. On WalMarts shelves were cans of Kroger coffee! The Kroger emblem was right on the front of each can. What does this mean? Are WalMart and Krogers owned by the same people? Question: how did cans of Krogers coffee find their way to the shelves of WalMart?
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It could be they both buy their private label coffees from the same manufacturer or distributor and it was misshipped, or mistakenly placed in the wrong labelled box and the person stocking the shelves didn’t bother to notice what he was stocking.
Did the shelf actually have a price tag matching the item. Did the product scan into their system at the register?
There is an old story we tell for customer service training at Bloomingdale’s that involves our store having gloves labelled Sak’s in our stock.
Wal-Mart probably bought the license to sell Kroger coffee.
This can of coffee scanned as WalMarts brand, so apparently they knew about it.
@john65pennington Interesting. Maybe it has the same UPC as walmart brand? I would find that odd, it should have a unique number I think. Next time I am in walmart I’m going to look at the coffee, and report back to you, unless someone on this Q has better info, hopefully they do. I’m sending this to jonsblond, they shop at Walmart.
Kroger operates 42 manufacturing plants, and packages and sells items for other retailers under the Inter-American Products Company name.
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This is because WalMart is taking over the world.
I’ve heard that different store brands are made by the same manufacturer and packaged differently. Seems this is the case with Wal-mart’s coffee. It’s probably exactly the same stuff you buy at Kroger.
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