{"id":671619,"date":"2010-02-22T10:07:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002399"},"modified":"2010-02-22T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:20:58","slug":"walmarts-kicks-name-brands-off-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/671619","title":{"rendered":"Walmarts Kicks Name Brands Off Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/shhhshopping-thumb-300x240-37274.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Another reason to try\/buy generic: you might have to because your favorite name-brand could be getting the boot from store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>If the product isn&#8217;t selling well-enough or the store just wants a better margin or co-branded advertising, sayonara. For instance, Walmart recently kicked off Glad and Hefty trashbags and replaced them with its own &#8220;Great Value&#8221; brand. <\/p>\n<p>Less choice, less clutter, lower prices, it could make shopping less of a chore. Do we really need to decide between 15 kinds of toothbrushes?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/15\/news\/companies\/walmart_dropping_brands\/?hpt=P1\">Dumped! Brand names fight to stay in stores<\/a> [CNNMoney]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another reason to try\/buy generic: you might have to because your favorite name-brand could be getting the boot from store shelves. If the product isn&#8217;t selling well-enough or the store just wants a better margin or co-branded advertising, sayonara. For instance, Walmart recently kicked off Glad and Hefty trashbags and replaced them with its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OIz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}