Reply #13: An hour? What planet are YOU on?

[jmowreader]

Wal-Mart uses a 30-second window for deliveries to their distribution centers, which handle everything except perishables.

I will admit that I like the way Wal-Mart handles deliveries from their DCs to their stores: instead of bringing a full trailer to the loading dock, waiting for it to be unloaded then going back to the DC with it, a Wal-Mart driver drops his trailer at the loading dock and takes a different trailer back to the DC. It's more efficient that way.

Oh yeah...if you're a supplier to Wal-Mart and W-M decides they don't like what they're paying for your product, they will come to your company and tell you how to cut your costs enough to sell to them.

If I was a manufacturer I wouldn't sell to them. 'Course, I don't plan to get into the manufacture of Cheap Plastic Crap, either.