> If WALMART sells them, and they are electronic, you can be sure
> they won't work after you walk them out the front door.
>
> Walmart has a stated policy of buying the cheapest available device.
> They have NO quality control department.  Customer returns are not
> returned to the vendor for analysis, just dumped, so the vendor never
> knows why things are returned or what is failing.  The quality goes
> out before the name goes on

The Warehouse, a NZ chain store also moving into Australia,
has a similar reputation. This may raise some people's hackles,
but I refuse to buy anything electrical or mechanical from The
Warehouse that is made in China. It's dirt cheap and it shows.
Family members, friends and I have been caught too many times.
Sure they have a money-back policy, but (a) why in all good
conscience sell junk in the first place and (b) why should I trudge
back to the shop. I knew a person in the sales dept once who
told me they expect a s***load of returns from every new shipment
and had a container reserved to send it back where it came from.
Aside from the quality, the chain stores are still busy enough to
drive smaller retailers out of business and to some extent break
up communities

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