Doug, your samples should be in the mail this afternoon. Not meaning to be rude to the others on the thread, I should mention that Doug sent me samples of the Regain they sell in Canada (which he'd purchased while he was traveling up there) quite awhile back, when we were about the only ones on the thread. So there's reciperocity (sp?) involved, as well as a long-term net friendship.
Thanks for the information about the process. Given the product is already successful in the stores it's in, it seems there would be no doubt that Walmart intends to expand the number of stores. I can't see the big guys being wishy washy enough to have a meeting at this stage (after product is already in stores), then just deciding "naw." I was/have been thinking their meeting with Wal-mart is to establish time-lines, how many stores to expand to, how fast, given where AQB is now with establishing regional bottlers and distributors,. I'm hoping they aren't going to cut AQB's profit margins! At least, not much. Wouldn't they have aleady established such things as price, etc. before the test market (where the product is still selling well enough to make regional managers very happy)? Also, they might want more kinds of product, something AQB is happily engaged in designing already, I understand.
There may be news today, or maybe as late as next week, about Target, and a couple of other chains "maybe". But we know it can take time from first meetings to product in the stores.
Like David said, the price is strong, and volume, historically for this company (since I've been an investor in it) was strong last week also.
Regards,
Ron
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