The focus on the one-gallon jar of Vlasic pickles came into play when a Wal-Mart manager came up with the idea to offer the one-gallon jar usually sold in the Food Service section as a Memorial Day item at the promotion price of $2.97, instead of the everyday low price of $3.47. The Food Service section, also known as the Institutional section, was an eight-foot section near the rest of the grocery. The Food Service section contained items that small concession businesses and “Mom ’n Pop” grocery stores regularly bought. This section tended to not be as frequently shopped as the end aisles and other more prominent areas of the store. The Wal-Mart manager who wanted to do this promotion called the Bentonville headquarters, requesting promotional dollars for the one-gallon jar. Like other consumer packaged goods companies, Vlasic regularly gave its customers allowance money, part of a Marketing Investment Planning program (MIP fund for short). Once allowance money was paid, Vlasic customers could utilize the funds as they wished. Wal-Mart was a centralized organization with promotional funds controlled at the Wal-Mart headquarters. Thus, the manager of an individual store had to get promotional funding from headquarters.