Walmart Selling Video Surveillance Through Grainger

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John Honovich
•Published Dec 29, 2015 05:00 AM

Grainger is one of the world's biggest distributors, selling ~$10 billion in products annually. Though never a major player in video surveillance, Grainger has linked up with Walmart to sell video surveillance products direct to end users.

In this note, we break down the connection and analyze its impact on the market.

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Comments (6)
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Luis Carmona
•Dec 29, 2015
Geutebruck USA • IPVMU Certified

The new industry innovation.... obfuscation.

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Ari Erenthal
•Dec 29, 2015
Chesapeake & Midlantic
In reply to Luis Carmona

Please. Obfuscation has always been central to every industry.

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Luis Carmona
•Dec 29, 2015
Geutebruck USA • IPVMU Certified
In reply to Ari Erenthal

Sorry, you're right.

Better and newer obfuscation.

JP
Josh Penfold
•Dec 30, 2015

I saw the writing on the wall of distributors selling to end users a while ago. After the manufacturers did nothing to stop, we made our online business focus more on cable and parts. The next big wave is manufacturers by passing the channel more and going direct.

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Undisclosed #1
•Dec 30, 2015
IPVMU Certified

The unmasking of Zoro:

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Undisclosed #2
•Jun 19, 2020

Loyal to Target's cameras. IDK what walmart was thinking.....