|
Posted by Mark Lloyd on November 22, 2005, 1:03 pm
show/hide quoted text
>Banty wrote:
>> says...
>> >PipeDown wrote:
>> >> > But the carpenter said he had no intention of doing business there
>> >> > again, adding, "Why should I put money in someone's pocket when they
>> >> > treat me like this?"
>> >> He can say that all he wants (to a newspaper) but is he going to drive
>> >> further to pay more for the same thing. Maybe once or twice but he will be
>> >> back.
>> >> I'm not hot on HD contractor services or special order stuff but a box of
>> >> nails is a box of nails no matter where you buy it and contractors only
make
show/hide quoted text
>> >> money by not spending too much or going too far to get it.
>> >What's wrong with going to local HW stores and lumber mills? I get
>> >better service and a better price there
>> Hours.
>> I might need the box of nails (or the extra can of paint, or the screw that
>> needs to be longer than the ones I had bought, etc. etc) at 4:00 pm on a
>> Sunday, or at 7:00 pm on a Saturday in the middle of my project, and only hte
>> big box stores are open. A lot of the local places around here close at 3:00
pm
show/hide quoted text
>> Saturday. The *largest* local outfit, which recently franchised with a
hardware
show/hide quoted text
>> chain, has only a few Sunday hours.
>> So, if the big box store is the closest that is open, or the only one that is
>> open, the big box store it is.
>> IMO the big box stores out-hour their competition as much as under-price them.
>> Banty
>Right. All the service in the world doesn't help me if it's only
>available 9-5 on weekdays.
When I needed a part for a toilet, I went to the local hardware store
(at about 430PM), and found an interesting combination of signs:
"we have what you need when you need it"
and
"closed"
That sounds like the "give and take" common in advertising, where the
first part tells you something good then the second part denies some
or most of it, Like the ads saying "30% off everything in the store",
then "except [LOOOONG list here]").
BTW, this was before there was a Lowe's here.
--
33 days until the winter solstice celebration
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
| 
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap
>> says...
>> >PipeDown wrote:
>> >> > But the carpenter said he had no intention of doing business there
>> >> > again, adding, "Why should I put money in someone's pocket when they
>> >> > treat me like this?"
>> >> He can say that all he wants (to a newspaper) but is he going to drive
>> >> further to pay more for the same thing. Maybe once or twice but he will be
>> >> back.
>> >> I'm not hot on HD contractor services or special order stuff but a box of
>> >> nails is a box of nails no matter where you buy it and contractors only