DMEs Take a Swing at CPAP Internet Retailing - Please help!

[MaskedMechanic]

Johnny's worst nightmare...Walmart? With all the sizes, there must be a thousand products on his website. Does anyone really think Walmart is going to dedicate a row to cpap? If they just have a few filters and some hoses a three of four machines and masks, are they likely to have the items we need? I would think whatever Resmed is doing with this 40% price increase thing is more likely to be on his mind.

[snork1]

[quote="MaskedMechanic"]Johnny's worst nightmare...Walmart? With all the sizes, there must be a thousand products on his website. Does anyone really think Walmart is going to dedicate a row to cpap? If they just have a few filters and some hoses a three of four machines and masks, are they likely to have the items we need? I would think whatever Resmed is doing with this 40% price increase thing is more likely to be on his mind.

[Goofproof]

But if you bought Brand XYZ CPAP from Wal-Mart, and got a good price on it, and went in at a later date to buy a second XYZ CPAP, they wouldn't carry the brand anymore because XYZ CPAP would no longer be able to give Wal-Mart the reduced price that they demanded. Then Wal-Mart would be stocking DEF CPAP's, because DEF CPAP's could under cut XYZ's price. The same goes for the operation of Sam's Club too. It's how they do business, They get great prices by squeezing their suppliers, sometime into bankrupcy. Jim And they are Non-Union. If anyone cares.

[alexjack]

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