" Also patrons of the store will be able to buy name brand household items for much less tehn elsewhere."

But is it the same product as elsewhere?

I've been told on good authority that cake mixes from Pillsbury look like the same box, but actual weights are shorter (12 oz. vs 16 oz.) Ingredients may not be the same either, but this is harder to verify. This was because they could not produce the same product for the price WalMart would give.

That same authority works at an upscale dept. store. They will take returns from other stores as long as the barcode is their system. Many products appear the same, but there's not match on those discounted products. Who can check the innards of their consumer electronics to see what's really there?

Chinese televisions that break a week after the warranty period?