I always laugh when folks in here and elsewhere make the claims that everything sold at Walmart is nothing but cheaply made Chinese junk. It's only partially true and here's why.
We've sold tens, hundreds probably, of millions of dollars worth of product to Walmart. They're consumer products of a leading brand name almost everyone would be familiar with. But they are made to our specifications, including all high quality component parts and all manufacturing processes. The products we sold Walmart were exactly the same as those we sold to other retailers all over the world, and they have an unparallelled reputation for quality and performance in our industry.
Now, what Walmart frequenly does is make their own knockoff versions of well-known brand name products, which they did with ours, and market them under one of their many house brand names. Their versions look similar to the originals but they're made with much cheaper components and with nowhere near the manufacturing quality that we and other companies required for our products. In the stores they're frequently displayed side by side but the knockoffs are considerably less expensive than the originals because their wholesale costs to Walmart were so much less than ours.
Consumers who purchased our products at Walmart got the same high quality and performance from them as they would had they purchased them elsewhere, and ditto for other well-know brand name products. But folks who bought the cheaper knockoffs instead got exactly what they paid for, pieces of junk by comparison. They bought cheap, they got cheap.