Red Heart Super Saver Yarn

Like so many manufacturers do, I am not surprised. But it sure is a sneaky way to raise the price. It reminds me of the coffee cans, not quite a pound, right?

This makes looking for a sale more attractive!

Diane

PS. Those colors you bought sound yummy!

So effectively, they have increased the price. It seems like a dumb way to do it as it will cause problems for people who, not noticing the change, don't buy enough for their projects. Out of curiosity, I went to the Coats & Clark Web site and they just list it with the old sizes. Herrschner's, however, lists it with the reduced sizes. Nora, as a major user of Super Saver, I think you should contact C&C and ask why they changed it.

The same reason Kelloggs and General Mills kept their prices and boxes the same, but reduced the content amount. ;(

sue

The put-up was changed because Walmart, the largest distributor of RedHeart yarns, is always demanding that suppliers reduce prices so that Walmart can increase its own profits. The suppliers have few methods of accomplishing this goal while still maintaining their own profits; the most widely-used method is to downsize the package. This whole Walmart mentality is one of the many reasons I shop there as little as possible and generally under duress when I do set foot in one.

I don't recall the man's name, but there's an essay out there somewhere (required reading for me in college at some point) that discusses the economics of a Hershey bar. That essay's basis thesis is very on-point to the whole "downsized package, static price" thing.

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:50:48 GMT, "Tante Jan" spewed forth :

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:03:31 GMT, Wooly spewed forth :

Stephen Jay Gould wrote the essay. His prediction of a 47.5-cent weightless bar on the shelves in 1998 didn't pan out. A "standard" bar in its nitrogen-charged mylar wrapper weighs 1.55oz and costs about 65 cents.

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Hi,

It isn't only Walmarts, AC Moore and Michaels all charge the same price for the yarn. $2.17 a skein and if it's not on sale you can get one skein using their coupon.

Hugs,

Nora

Nora, what Wooly is saying is that WalMart is the culprit in the downsizing. AC Moore and Michaels are just purchasing and selling what WalMart basically forced RedHeart to do... Noreen

mumble... walmarT, walmarT, walmatT.... there's no 's', grin!

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:55:52 -0500, "Noreen's Knit*che" spewed forth :

Exactly. Walmart has, since Sam Walton died, assumed a corporate policy of demanding that each supplier agree to some per-unit price reduction whenever said supplier's contract is up for renewal. Because Walmart has become the largest retailer in the world during the past 15 years or so any supplier that refuses to meet Walmart's demand in this regard risks losing a HUGE market share.

Some major manufacturers (Singer comes to mind, among others) develop a special "Walmart" line of products in an effort to keep their brands out there for the shoppers who for whatever reason won't shop anywhere else. Most of the "Walmart lines" based on my observation are smaller, more cheaply made, and of lesser quality than the "regular" lines sold elsewhere.

There are some companies that won't do business with Walmart, generally the smaller, family-owned affairs.

But, in the case of yarn, if the manufacturer is only shipping one put-up, everybody sells it.

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Your clarification was / is MUCH more eloquent than mine, thanks, Wooly! Noreen

My boss puts the `S' in... drives me nuts....

sue

a LOT of people DO, Sue, and it drives me ballistic! Ah well, guess it's not different than people who say Illinoise... LOL Noreen

Here's one for you.... I think it's a regional dialect thing and I've only noticed it in the U.S.... when people pronounce some words with an "E" in them, it comes out like an "I"..... example: the name "Ben" sounds like "Bin" ;>)

And yeah - I say "eh".... (smirk)

Shelagh

oh yeah. Northern Wisconsinites, Upper Penninsulans and Minnesotians also say eh. Now, having moved to the 'south'... people here will relax things to the point of absurdity. AH for I vul for ville firefly for example is said fahrflah. Nashville is said nashvul No wonder southern students are the poorest spellers, LOL! Noreen

LOL, just had a thought, PHONICS would NOT work here in the south! fahrflahs wer owt in the naht last naht. splort! Noreen

It is true what you gals say about Walmart. My friend worked for a company that sold to Walmart, which was their biggest customer. When an order was placed, their company went crazy filling that order to their specifications, using overtime and anything to get it out on time. They said that that is one account they could not afford to lose. Everyone suffered in getting it out. Sad, but true. Diane

Some of the very N Idaho natives do too.

Then there's my uncle who grew up in Missourah, and puts that final `I' into the middle of I-dee-ho, basically swapping the two vowels.

sue

I don't shop at WalMart. Period.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

And as long as we've hit the south and the north, lets go east... to Bahston, specfically, where Massachusians love to add an 'er' to a word ending in 'a' and take the 'er' OFF and pronounce it WITH an 'ah'... example (I'll use JFK) We have to go across the watah to Cuber. Noreen laughing like a banshee! oh! and regulah coffee LOL

Good one, Noreen. The Kennedy's have done a whole lot of unintentionally promoting of "lazy speech." People have actually not believed I grew up in Massachusetts, since I know how to pronounce words as they are written(usually with "er's" and "A's" in the proper places). It sometimes makes me wonder if people actually know how to spell (nowadays, a whole lot don't, it seems). Don't get me wrong, I do get my fingers on the wrong keys plenty of times, but I usually know HOW to spell most word..... :-)) Carey in MA