If you supply goods, licensed or otherwise, to Walmart, you may have to start shelling out fees to the company for stocking your items in its new stores and/or holding your goods as inventory in its warehouses.
The new fees, which reportedly range from 1% on the value of goods held in inventory to 10% for food suppliers on the value of goods shipped to new stores, apply to roughly 10,000 of Walmart’s 11,000 vendors. Adult beverages and produce are among the categories excluded. Walmart admits that the new fee structure is designed to cut its own operating costs and allow it to reclaim the pricing advantage it’s famous for.