Walmart has become known to put small local businesses out of service at their relatively low prices. Now, a new improbable walmart product has weapons people – fancy cakes.
People are furious that Walmart is now selling affordable heart -shaped cakes.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Walmart has unveiled the perfect celebration product – cakes in the shape of a fancy heart to the usual prices of the good affair of Walmart. Hourra! Who doesn’t like a cake, right?
Many people, apparently. The cakes instantly triggered the indignation of Tiktok among professional bakers, which believe that Walmart encroaches on their territory in a way that they believe to be extremely unfair.
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Professional bakers are angry that Walmart cheap cakes force them to reduce their prices.
There is no doubt about this – the decoration of cakes is an art, and it takes a lot of time and efforts to develop these skills. This is why a professional cake is so expensive – the fat of the elbow, not to mention the extended time, necessary to make a cake with fantasy flowers and a decor on the frosting is really at a completely different level.
But now Walmart sells cakes like that – in a “vintage” style reminded many people from the 1950s, with a lot of rosettes and other flowers – for only $ 25. A personalized cake will take you far, much more.
For example, a professional baker said that they would normally invoice $ 144 for a cake similar to that found at Walmart for just under $ 25. For obvious reasons, this has very nervous bakers.
A baker on Reddit explained perfectly why. “My family had a bakery in the 80s. We went bankrupt due to the rise of supermarkets that had their own bakeries,” they wrote. “It is the capacity of corporate channels to buy the bully -bullying ingredients that snowed us.”
Presumably, this is exactly what is happening here – whether it is Walmart or McDonald’s, huge conglomerates can buy materials often below the cost and in bulk, which makes owners of small businesses that cannot compete, Even if the ingredient conglomerates buy are often far lower.
As the Redditor says, “our product was higher, but almost twice the cost, and nothing we could do about it. Foodservice has thin razor margins, and there is not much margin of pregnancy when great competitors move in. “
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But several bakers also argue that fancy cakes should be a “luxury”, not a cheap walmart product.
The prospects of bakers are certainly understandable. Like Walmart’s False Birkin bag which has become viral during the holidays, there is a huge difference between a hand product and built by professionals and a cheap knock-off at Walmart, whether it is ‘A handbag or a cake.
The difference between a cake and a birkin, however, is that Hermès will not be put out of work by people who buy $ 50 in false birkins. A real birkin is a five -digit purchase out of reach of almost everyone. These are two databases of different customers with little overlap.
Cakes, however, are another story, and many bakers believe that tailor -made cake is a “luxury” that people should Pay the price required for. In a tiktok since deleted, Baker @birdsbakery said they were deeply bored by people “complaining” about what professionals were billing, “when the birthday cake is a luxury. It is not a need. “”
Unsurprisingly, it happened like a lead ball – and it is difficult to maintain that it is not an extremely elitist socket. The birthday cake is not a luxury. These are eggs, flour and sugar and you can get one in a box for $ 3. No one owes him to a baker or someone else to “win” a cake on the sheet.
However, the feelings of professional bakers are understandable. It is not really different from the rest of us, we worry that our jobs will finally be swallowed by AI, at the end.
But there is one of the reasons why house bakers should not be so in their arms: just like people who buy Birkins will never buy a Walmart Knock-Off, many of us who want a cake Really delicious and beautiful will not buy one in Walmart. We will call a professional baker.
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John Sundholm is a writer, publisher and video personality with 20 years of experience in the media and entertainment. It covers culture, mental health and subjects of human interest.
