Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs

[taddzilla]

Source: Rolling Stone Magazine (http://www.rollingstone.com)
By: WARREN COHEN
October 12, 2004

Biggest U.S. record retailer battles record labels over prices

Wal-mart wants every CD you buy to cost less than ten bucks. And the nation's largest retailer -- which moved a quarter of a trillion dollars' worth of goods last year -- usually gets its way. Suppliers who don't accede to Wal-Mart's "everyday low price" mantra often find their products bounced from the chain's stores, excluded from being sold to the 138 million people who shop at a Wal-Mart store every week.

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[Carrie]

w00t!

The only thing that sucks is that (around here) they only sell the censored version of the CD's :(

[Nilly_Chipples]

yep, I was going to say the same thing. $10 + uncensored...then I'm good for it. But 10 is better than 20 either way. But I'm not buying censored. Nothing like going down the road justa jammin and the make up words and you look like an idiot :fist: :disgust:

[ISOSES]

the distributers better comply or theill fiend the rollout man paying them a visit

[Xyc0]

Holy Cow, thats what you call a power play. Wholy Cow...

[FrYGuY]

Last I heard, WalMart already strongarmed the RIAA into lowering prices for them...

God bless WalMart for it too. WalMart gets 2% of its sales from music (and actually was selling them at a loss), but that made up 20% of the RIAA's sales.

As you can imagine, WalMart managed quite successfully to force the RIAA into submission... ;)

[webe123]

Mabye this is ONE mega giant that the RIAA is actually AFRAID of ticking off?? Who knows? Everyone has been asking for $10.00 CDs....mabye with wal-marts nudge....the record companies just might comply. It would be hilarious to see the the record companies cowering before wal-mart! HA! HA!