Aaron_W
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Agree, at this point Walmart is just known for being a cheap one stop shop and that is it.
Walmart Getting Serious About Tools in 2026?
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Agree, at this point Walmart is just known for being a cheap one stop shop and that is it.
At this point? That’s been their whole Schtick since day one. And it seems to work for them.
Aaron_W
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We didn't get Walmart in California until the 90s and by then they were certainly going for cheap, but I don't think that was always their model.
four.cycle
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More to the point:
Hand tools were always one of the lower margin items sold in a retail setting.
Traditionally, that's the way the pricing was structured:
Hand tools = you were lucky to clear a 40% net margin
Air freshners, car wax, chrome widgets = 70% - 80%
It's still that way, just not set up the same as far as distribution levels.
Not as much money to be made on tools as on laundry detergent, diapers, and coffee pots.
Retailer will always go where the profit is.
Tools are just a "sideline" thing they offer as a convenience in an attempt to keep all of that customer's purchases "in house".
I don’t go to Lowe’s often but when I do, it seems like they have the same dust covered piles of craftsman tools. They had there the last time.
Walmart is a discount retailer and I’m hard-pressed tell a company that has 550 billion a year revenue. They don’t know what they’re doing.
Besides, we all know that nowadays,the name, “craftsman”evokes emotion and very little else
Besides Walmart slaps the name “hyper tough “on all kinds of inexpensive tools and sells them relatively cheap prices
That’s pretty much what Walmart does.
Walmart is a discount retailer and I’m hard-pressed tell a company that has 550 billion a year revenue. They don’t know what they’re doing.
Besides, we all know that nowadays,the name, “craftsman”evokes emotion and very little else
Besides Walmart slaps the name “hyper tough “on all kinds of inexpensive tools and sells them relatively cheap prices
That’s pretty much what Walmart does.
whateg01
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I really thought they were going to pull some hair from the wheelWell, this explains it
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Walmart has always been a discount retailer. High volume low margin has always been their thing.
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FYI, this little Hyper Tough tool is great:
It’s the tiny handheld blower Milwaukee should make using M12. It’s tiny! Compared to my Makita for scale:
I’ll keep it on the bench at home and may pickup another for work. USB-C charging pack and good build quality. I was impressed with the airflow for such a small tool but more impressive is the tiny size and great form factor. It’s my first Hyper Tough tool.
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It’s the tiny handheld blower Milwaukee should make using M12. It’s tiny! Compared to my Makita for scale:
I’ll keep it on the bench at home and may pickup another for work. USB-C charging pack and good build quality. I was impressed with the airflow for such a small tool but more impressive is the tiny size and great form factor. It’s my first Hyper Tough tool.
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milkovich
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DeWalt is just a house brand for HD at this point. SBD painted themselves into a corner chasing this quarters numbers over and over while screwing all their other distributors to push more through HD. It's so bad, someone with the buying power of Menard's doesn't even bother with Dewalt even though they carry Irwin/Bostich/etc.
There's tons of DeWALT at Lowes
For some reason I always think of HD as Milwaukee and Ryobi. Lowe’s is more of a Dewalt store along with smaller chains like Ace and farm stores.
milkovich
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I believe TTI has an even higher proportion of their business going through HD, but at least they treat their other distributors well. I think it's more like a Mexican standoff between TTI and HD, each needs the other whereas SBD and HD is more like an abusive relationship. Interestingly, ChatGPT seems to think Amazon is a larger outlet for DeWalt than HD but I kind of doubt that. There are 3rd party sellers and knockoffs as well as SBD and Amazon themselves selling on Amazon, it'd be interesting to see the real numbers. What I do know for a fact is that SBD quarterly promo prices to distributors are above HD's retail "on sale" price in many cases making it pretty pointless to try to sell 20v product even at the 10-15% margin online retailers try to survive on and HD moves about 50-60% more DeWalt than Lowes.
Walmart is a discounter.
Why would DeWalt want to dilute their already cutthroat-pricing product market further?