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Brandon Hill (Blog) - July 17, 2006 1:04 PM
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The world's largest retailer welcomes OCZ

OCZ has announced a distribution agreement with the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart, which operates over 1,100 Wal-Mart stores, over 2,000 Supercenters and nearly 600 Sam's Clubs, marks OCZ's second large-scale agreement with a US retailer in less than a month -- in late June, OCZ signed a two-year agreement with Buy.com.

Ryan Petersen, OCZ's CEO, is confident that the relationship will give the company even more exposure in the US market and expand the availability of its products by partnering with one of the most recognizable brands in America. “Securing a relationship with the online division of the world’s largest retailer will enable OCZ to vastly expand the availability of our products in the States. We look forward to working closely with Wal-Mart to make OCZ’s leading edge products more readily available to consumers,” said Petersen.

OCZ made its initial public offering (IPO) in the London Stock Exchange on June 22. The company offered 7.5 million shares at roughly $1.20 USD per share. Currently, shares of OCZ are holding at $1.24 USD. This gives the company a market cap of about $9.3 million USD.

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Sell your soul to the devil...
By johnnyMon on 7/17/2006 2:34:13 PM , Rating: 5
...and you get what you deserve. Wal-Mart will squeeze OCZ to cut prices until it makes almost no money, and will alienate the rest of OCZ's retailers. They'll move volume, but lose profit, then quality, then market share. I predict.




RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By FITCamaro on 7/17/2006 3:37:13 PM , Rating: 3
You nailed it in the title. Walmart is the fing devil here to suck the soul dry from every person on the planet.

I pity OCZ. They will soon find out what doing business with Walmart means. My mom is pharmacy manager at a specialty pharmacy that got bought out by Walmart. The only reason she's still there is because its hard for her to find another job that will pay her as much (over $115,000 a year + she gets a $27,000 bonus next march). But she hates Walmart and all the s**t she has to put up with. She got written up by her boss because she told an employee to do her f*ing job.


By MonkeyPaw on 7/17/2006 4:38:38 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
She got written up by her boss because she told an employee to do her f*ing job.


Well, I hope she asked a little nicer than that. While it's annoying to have deadbeat coworkers, there is also a proper way to tell people things. If they don't listen, getting angry at them doesn't even matter. What sucks is when the boss lets it happen, and many bosses do!


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By creathir on 7/17/06, Rating: -1
RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By rushfan2006 on 7/17/2006 4:28:26 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
Which is one thing I do not understand why people, particularly liberals, go after this company. They provide products for the masses at a lower cost. Is this not what liberals want the government to do?


Well I think the reason most people who dislike WalMart isn't because they sell things at low prices. I think its because of the predatory business practices that they employ especially in small communities and against the smaller mom and pop businesses and even some franchise chains. What's more Walmart has raised more than one eyebrow for its treatment of employees.

Finally,and feel free to call me prejudice or whatever here - because in this case -- ok I am...am I suppose to feel shame or something? Anyway...I don't like the "class" of customer that WalMart attracts. Mostly white trash, then they loiter around the store area, the parking lot. Its also packed like herded cattle in there.

Oh and finally I find their products of lower quality -- guess that explains their prices though.

Disclaimer: I hate shopping to begin with at any store.

So yeah that's why some of us hate Walmart.



RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By creathir on 7/17/2006 5:45:37 PM , Rating: 2
Wow, your comments usually flow with general lines of conservative thinking.

I would HARDLY call the people that shop there "white trash" given that 99% of the products you buy there are the same as you get anywhere else.

Sure, it is not DESIGNER clothing. Sure the shoes are not "designer", but how are any of the other products different? What product is "inferior" there? On top of that, if only white trash shop there, why is it the most successful company in global history?

I suppose the whole world is "white trash" to you?

Take your GAP clothing (and crappy commercials mind you) and pay your high prices. Sure the sleeves on my $5.00 shirt may not be even, but they won't be at Old Navy either, and they cost $20!

Is it the DVDs you dislike for the less than Best Buy prices? Maybe it is the Legos on the toy aisle? Oh wait... I know what it is, you don't like the Rubbermaid containers... that’s what it is. You're right... nothing but white trash products.

As far the small business claims... what on earth are you talking about? You would rather pay MORE for a product from some little Mom and Pop store? Maybe you have an agenda (keep the mom and pop store around) and if that is the case, then pay more! I don't care! Mom and Pop shops hate Wal-Mart because all of the sudden, they have competition. As I have stated OVER AND OVER AND OVER, this is a GOOD thing. It means either prices will go down, or quality of service will go up. (In order to compete for the customers)

I honestly thought you had a solid understanding of the free market system. Obviously, I was wrong.

- Creathir


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By Josh7289 on 7/17/2006 6:19:06 PM , Rating: 2
Hahaha, here we go. I agree with most of what rushfan2006 said. I try not to shop at Wal-Mart not only because of the lower quality of products (besides things like games and other products that are available at other stores), but because the lower quality of products, and thus lower prices, attracts lower-class people (in the way that it attracts people like, as rushfan2006 said, "white trash"). Seriously, I can see so many people in Wal-Mart that I could not imagine being anywhere else in society. I'm sorry if this offends anybody, but this is simply my observations.

creathir, rushfan2006's argument had nothing to do with products that are sold in multiple stores, because quality will always be the same, but he was talking about their other products, mostly ones you can only find in Wal-Mart stores, which is what attracts the previously mentioned people.

quote:
It means either prices will go down, or quality of service will go up. (In order to compete for the customers)


With Wal-Mart, three things go down: the mom and pop stores, the prices, and the quality of services and product.


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By Aquila76 on 7/17/2006 7:31:29 PM , Rating: 2
The reason why so many people (not only liberals) hate on WalMart is because after driving Mom and Pop and the local workers they employed out of town, they pull out because no one living there can afford to buy anything at WalMart. Check out that movie 'Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price' for more info.


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By TomZ on 7/17/2006 8:44:40 PM , Rating: 2
What's so great about mom-and-pop stores, anyway? If they were so great, then people would continue to shop there even when there is a Wal-Mart in town.

It's also kind of a double-standard I see here. Everyone seems to applaud the new competitiveness between Intel and AMD. But in the case of Wal-Mart, people complain that they don't like the "winner" of the competition.


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By Josh7289 on 7/17/2006 9:39:16 PM , Rating: 2
When it comes to AMD vs. Intel, the two of them are always fighting to improve the other.

In the case of Wal-Mart, all the other competition is totally annihilated and driven out of business. That's not competition. That's a monopoly.


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By TomZ on 7/18/2006 1:55:12 PM , Rating: 2
Why couldn't the mom-and-pops effectively compete? After all, in order to succeed in business, you don't have to compete on price alone. How about quality? Service? Surely you are not going to argue that Wal-Mart has any great advantage in these aspects.


By rushfan2006 on 7/18/2006 5:07:35 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
What's so great about mom-and-pop stores, anyway? If they were so great, then people would continue to shop there even when there is a Wal-Mart in town.


Its more to do with how they conduct business and treat people..than the prices of mom and pop stores. That is my point anyway...

And as for people continuing to shop there even with a walmart in town don't be so sure..in the USA....bigger is always perceived as better -- its part of our culture.

I could care less about WalMart's size or success if they weren't so underhanded in how they do business (and obvious about it).



get real...
By kmmatney on 7/17/2006 9:40:46 PM , Rating: 2
In most of booming America (new houses in sprawl-ville) there are no "Mom and Pop" stores and never will be. You're going to have a Walmart, Target, or something similar. Our local Walmart is near a neighborhood of large 4000+ sq. foot houses - we can afford to shop wherever we want - Walmart is convenient, clean, and gets good clientele where I live (near Denver, Colorado).


By rushfan2006 on 7/18/2006 5:04:47 PM , Rating: 2
Our opinions are formed from our life experiences and what we witness in *our* day to day environment. This means what we see in the towns, counties, neighborhoods that we live, work and play in and around. That is where the white trash comment comes from. Nothing more, nothing less. If you can't take honest opinion -- that's not a problem for me, its a problem you have.

Ironically, contrary to your post in which you make an attempt to label (conservative, "take your GAP clothing", etc.) you are well off the mark with me.

I am a person of very simple means. I'm far from materialistic -- much more "practical" in my buying habits than I'd say the "average" person is. I for example, *loathe* the GAP...and spending a fortune on items like clothes.

No, sorry but I stand by my post fully -- the fact that you have a problem with it means nothing to me. Big whop you are upset.

Apparently you think WalMart selling stuff for cheap is all that matters. And you want to label me? Talk about petty.

Do some research, the company is a predator -- forget about their cheap prices. Instead do some research into their business practices, do some research into their ethics and cases on them regarding how they treat employees.

Oh but in your book because they are cheap -- that cancels out everything right?

Take your arrogant, presumptious ego and point it in someone else's face.



RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By Schadenfroh on 7/17/2006 7:44:40 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
don't like the "class" of customer that WalMart attracts. Mostly white trash, then they loiter around the store area, the parking lot.


I hardly ever see ANY white people in my local walmart, aside from the people working in there. Most of the customers at mine are Mexican and they do exactly what you describe in regards to what "white trash" do at your walmart.


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By Josh7289 on 7/17/2006 7:59:20 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
I hardly ever see ANY white people in my local walmart, aside from the people working in there. Most of the customers at mine are Mexican and they do exactly what you describe in regards to what "white trash" do at your walmart.


Same people, different flavor.


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By kmmatney on 7/17/2006 9:45:03 PM , Rating: 2
Well, I guess it depends where you live, totally different in Centennial, Colorado. The Walmarts around here are clean, and no "loiterers". I've seen some majorly crappy Walmarts in California, but they are totally different from Walmarts in Colorado.


RE: Sell your soul to the devil...
By Josh7289 on 7/18/2006 11:09:08 AM , Rating: 2
You're pretty lucky, then! My Wal-Mart is not exactly what I'd call clean. It was nice back when it opened, but not any more... Ha.


ok
By Soulkeeper on 7/17/2006 3:11:08 PM , Rating: 2
i never really liked ocz
they make cheap memory
unless maybe you are buying there highest-end model...
the kind that it sounds like they are gonna sell at walmart will prob have cheesy latencies or not even run at the rated speed/spd all the time

guess we'll see





RE: ok
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 7/17/2006 3:17:50 PM , Rating: 2
Been a Corsair fanboy for a while now. Never like OCZ. =/


RE: ok
By protosv on 7/17/2006 3:34:39 PM , Rating: 3
I dunno....i have their midrange DDR400 running in my Athlon 3700 (939) box and i've overclocked the CL down to 2 from 2.5. Been running solid as a rock for over 2 years now.


RE: ok
By protosv on 7/17/2006 3:35:47 PM , Rating: 2
Just realized....can't "overclock CAS latencies", just lower them ;).


Classism on this Topic
By TomZ on 7/17/2006 8:48:41 PM , Rating: 2
I find the amount of classism on this topic really disturbing. If the same things were said about women, or blacks, or Jews; there would be complete outrage. But somehow it is acceptable to draw stereotypes and make jokes about Wal-Mart shoppers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classism




RE: Classism on this Topic
By codeThug on 7/17/2006 9:09:47 PM , Rating: 2
This should come as now suprise if you have ever shopped in a Walmart. What I want to know is, where did all of these Walmart types shop before Walmart got big. The oddity at Walmart is the overwhelming concentration of multi-colored trash. It reminds me of the old Mad Magazine "peek behind the scenes" cartoons by Mort Drucker...


RE: Classism on this Topic
By bob661 on 7/18/2006 1:10:41 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
I find the amount of classism on this topic really disturbing.
That's how it is here in the US. Just rarely do you hear people express it.


RE: Classism on this Topic
By INeedCache on 7/18/2006 4:53:22 AM , Rating: 2
True, most Americans have little class, and that is aptly expressed in this particular forum. You all can spend your money wherever you want, I'll go to Wal-Mart and buy many things my family and I need for less. I only make a certain amount of money, and I'll shop wherever I get the best prices. If you want to give the mom and pop store $3 for a box of band-aids, go ahead, I'll get the same thing at Wal-Mart for $1.80. I agree that many of their clothing items are very poorly made, and we don't buy them. But many things they sell are identical to what one finds in other stores, for less. By the way, didn't anyone ever tell you stereotyping isn't very nice? Probably some of you are exactly what you are complaining against. Figures, typical Americans.


Target Market?
By Gentleman on 7/17/2006 3:07:16 PM , Rating: 2
The bulk of Walmart's customers are looking for cheap everyday items and not highend computer hardware. I know that Walmart is try to shed this image, but selling OCZ hardware won't shed this "cheap" image that they have. Wonder how those sales clerks will explaing what a DDR Booster does or the what the difference between Gold and Platnium means...and stuff like that.




RE: Target Market?
By creathir on 7/17/2006 6:07:51 PM , Rating: 2
"Well sir, platinum is the metal that is used on the chip instead of gold. That is why it costs more. I can call an associate in jewelry to explain this more if you would like?"

- Fred the Wal Mart clerk (aka shelving associate)


RE: Target Market?
By TomZ on 7/17/2006 8:45:35 PM , Rating: 2
Wal-Mart didn't say they were going to carry OCZ at each store; they said they would make those products available online.


I may be stereotyping a bit but...
By MrSmurf on 7/17/2006 8:11:49 PM , Rating: 2
Seems like an odd deal... Considering the people who typically shop at Wal-Mart can't bathe on a daily basis and can barely feed and cloth their 12 toothlesss children.




RE: I may be stereotyping a bit but...
By ajdavis on 7/17/2006 11:57:42 PM , Rating: 2
Stereotyping you call it? If not paying over-inflated prices is something poor dirty people do it is.
Compare shopping at Walmart to shopping at newegg. Why go to BestBuy and pay twice as much when you can get the same stuff at newegg for half the price? You just don't do it.
You can't deny you shop there or at Walmart and if you do... I laugh at you.


By bob661 on 7/18/2006 1:08:36 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
can't bathe on a daily basis

quote:
poor dirty people


LMAO!!!


Weird...
By kondor999 on 7/17/2006 2:44:54 PM , Rating: 1
I could be wrong, but...

Somehow I can't see your average Wal-mart customer shelling out the big bucks for 2-2-2-6 memory.





RE: Weird...
By TomZ on 7/17/2006 3:06:28 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
Somehow I can't see your average Wal-mart customer shelling out the big bucks for 2-2-2-6 memory

From the article,
quote:
a relationship with the online division of the world’s largest retailer

Doesn't sound like the plan is for high-performance DRAMs to be sold at their stores.


RE: Weird...
By Samus on 7/17/2006 3:31:22 PM , Rating: 2
which is too bad, because OCZ's low-end crap is real crap.


.
By hans007 on 7/17/2006 3:00:05 PM , Rating: 2
wow, i did not know ryan peterson was the ceo.

this guy used to work at northwind computer (if you remember) that made the popular northwind athlon slot A golden fingers.

i remember becuase i sold him 800 agilent arctic coolers when the ocz store first opened.




RE: .
By KristopherKubicki (blog) on 7/17/2006 3:10:24 PM , Rating: 2
Exposure but..
By Trisped on 7/17/2006 3:03:52 PM , Rating: 2
Wal-Mart=exposure, but I find most Wal-Mart brands are considered cheep compaire to stuff from a specialty store (in this case NewEgg and the like).




RE: Exposure but..
By creathir on 7/17/2006 6:04:47 PM , Rating: 2
Everyone keeps saying this... but I really am not sure what they are talking about? Sure on a TV, you get RCA and not Sony, but on MOST of their products, they are the same thing you can get elsewhere.
- Creathir


LOL....
By breethon on 7/17/2006 7:05:00 PM , Rating: 2
I just went there today to buy some Gatorade! Maybe I should start a mom and pop shop for those of you who would rather pay inflated prices. I will by the stuff at Walmart and jack the prices and you can buy from me. How does that sound?

Where are all the evolutionists? I mean, come on, survival of the fittest right? Or don't that apply here?

Truth be told, either via evil means or not, Walmart is a HUGELY SUCCESSFUL business. The bottom line is $. Nothing more, nothing less.

And by the way, I don't mind standing in line with trashy people knowing I am getting a good deal. Hey, I can always go out in my car and spray some more deoderant on myself to cover the stink.

If you want to see white trash, go to ALDIs..... ;)




RE: LOL....
By bob661 on 7/18/2006 1:07:00 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
Hey, I can always go out in my car and spray some more deoderant on myself to cover the stink.
I use gasoline and hydrochloric acid mixed in a spray bottle.


white trash
By 101 on 7/18/2006 5:23:57 AM , Rating: 2
White trash is who fighting your war in Iraq.Get your noise out of the perfume,and put your noise in the trash.




RE: white trash
By breethon on 7/18/2006 10:00:17 PM , Rating: 2
LOL....What "NOISE" are you talking about? I don't hear any sound. Are you jealous cause they don't have a Walmart near the cave you live in? I would say based upon your grammar you might be white trash. Go get an education and when you can make some sense, come back and join a civilized conversation.


Up for a little research?
By SGTPan on 7/19/2006 4:09:33 AM , Rating: 2
My marketing professor sent my class out to our local grocery and discount stores to find a few items... then to Wal-Mart to find the same items. Tricky, tricky, Sam Walton... of course our professor knew what was going on, but we found out first hand that many of the items you find at Wal-Mart, are specially made just for Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. Name brand stuff like Potato chips, Razors, Toilet Paper and Laundry Soap... made in certain sizes and quantities, ONLY for Wal-Mart. If you look elsewhere; say at a Target, Walgreens or Albertsons, you'll find things that are damn near the same, but not quite. The ones at Wal-Mart are a little cheaper... and they have just a little less product in them! Now, of course this isn't everything they sell at Wally World but, have you ever wondered why you couldn't find something in a certain quantity or size at Wal-Mart that you could get elsewhere? Look a little closer next time you're shopping to see if what you're getting at Wal-Mart really is the same thing you'd get elsewhere at a cheaper price... or something made to SEEM like a better deal.




RE: Up for a little research?
By breethon on 7/19/2006 5:33:37 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah....my DVD that I bought there was only 3/4 of the movie...and the pack of gum I bought a the checkout had only one piece in it, and the gatorade that I bought was only....wait....64 oz.....hmmmmmmm....


Walmart Free
By blwest on 7/17/2006 5:58:41 PM , Rating: 1
I haven't stepped foot into a Wal-mart for 2 years now. I will pay more at a mom-and-pop store. I will pay more for a quality product, not less for a replacement item.

Yes and every walmart I've been in is full of trailer trash.




RE: Walmart Free
By ajdavis on 7/17/2006 11:53:59 PM , Rating: 2
Ah yes because in with those thousands of other non-white trash customers there are bound to be a few outcasts. Get a life if you think you can categorize the entire customer base of a multi-billion dollar company such as this.


By Mclendo06 on 7/17/2006 5:04:02 PM , Rating: 2
Something tells me that there are going to be a lot of unfortunate Wal-Mart shoppers who know nothing about the inside of a computer who buy low-end OCZ ram that isn't even compatible with their system because it says that it will make their computer (which in their case is a seven year old PII system running off lord-only knows what type of RAM) faster. Such people will find that DDR2 system memory doesn't fit into the ISA expansion slot on their computer, and then they'll wonder why their fried machine won't turn on and be upset that Wal-Mart won't give them a refund on their similarly fried ram. And anyways, what sort of discount is Wal-Mart going to be able to get on RAM? It's such a commodity-like product; I don't see Wal-Mart being able to offer a substantial discount over others.




Up for a little research?
By SGTPan on 7/19/2006 4:07:38 AM , Rating: 2
My marketing professor sent my class out to our local grocery and discount stores to find a few items... then to Wal-Mart to find the same items. Tricky, tricky, Sam Walton... of course our professor knew what was going on, but we found out first hand that many of the items you find at Wal-Mart, are specially made just for Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. Name brand stuff like Potato chips, Razors, Toilet Paper and Laundry Soap... made in certain sizes and quantities, ONLY for Wal-Mart. If you look elsewhere; say at a Target, Walgreens or Albertsons, you'll find things that are damn near the same, but not quite. The ones at Wal-Mart are a little cheaper... and they have just a little less product in them! Now, of course this isn't everything they sell at Wally World but, have you ever wondered why you couldn't find something in a certain quantity or size at Wal-Mart that you could get elsewhere? Look a little closer next time you're shopping to see if what you're getting at Wal-Mart really is the same thing you'd get elsewhere at a cheaper price... or something made to SEEM like a better deal.




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