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This is prettt much the case throughout the retail space in Flagstaff, or so it seems. Home Despot is probably one of the best retail places to work, starting people out at or near $20/hour. I spoke to the store manager about my experiences there a couple months ago. She said that her expectation is for employees to serve customers first, and deal with other tasks second, and she promotes this and expects nothing less. Otherwise, I think it’s a cultural thing here, as people are really laid back in general. No road rage, everyone is really nice, people are driving around after it snows helping people stuck get out - for free. There’s definitely something different going on here, as it’s across the board for the most part. -D On Jan 4, 2022, at 9:31 AM, Curt Raymond wrote: There is such a spread of big box store employees. The Home Depot in Keene has almost all totally useless employees. They make it seem like they're doing you a big favor just to acknowledge your existence. The Lowes in Presque Isle is super hit or miss, most of the employees are idiots but occasionally you get a good one. When we painted the house last summer the paint guy was fantastic. -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 10:18:13 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Back in November I was at Home Despot and wanted to buy a specific DeWalt finish nailer. Their online inventory says they've got 22 in stock at the store. Go to the aisle where they're located, no stock. Now understand that the eastside Home Depot in Flagstaff has the best, most responsive and accommodating staff of any big box retailer I've ever experienced. Knowing this, I seek out some help and find someone. They come back and spend a good 10 minutes with me scanning the backstock looking for this nailer. No joy. They call another associate. "If they're not here, they're probably in mixed stock in receiving." So this guy that had been helping me goes back to receiving to start looking through pallets. I hang out in the tool section for a bit, and after about 5 minutes the other guy who came over to assist associate #1 comes running up and says, "I found them! They're in the "racetrack"!!!" Turns out they had been on sale, so they were stocked out in the front of the store where everyone walks by. He calls associate #1 and tells him he found them. Amazing. These guys probably spent a collective 20 minutes or more helping me out. This is typical of the store. I love the place, and have told management about it, too. The Home Despots near my house in Florida suck. You can't find the help if you wanted at them, and when you do, they're rarely of value. -D From: Mercedes mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com>> on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:05 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Cc: Kaleb Striplin mailto:ka...@striplin.net>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Yep, I have run into that at Lowes. Somebody sticks something in the wrong spot and it gets lost. Nobody wants to look for anything either. On 1/3/2022 9:00 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: > I was at Lowes a few weeks ago, wanted to buy a dehumidifier that the website > said was in stock (1 left) and on a closeout sale. > > Got there, none to be found. Website still said one in stock. Internal store > system said one in stock. But not on the shelf, and not in the back room. > Employees just shrugged and updated the inventory to "zero." > > Allan > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling >> prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any >> to sell... >> My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice >> for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 >> choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They >> don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not >> sell. >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via >> Mercedes mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: >> >> Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely >> selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given >> location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. >> I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. >> I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. >> >> It's amazing how
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There is such a spread of big box store employees. The Home Depot in Keene has almost all totally useless employees. They make it seem like they're doing you a big favor just to acknowledge your existence. The Lowes in Presque Isle is super hit or miss, most of the employees are idiots but occasionally you get a good one. When we painted the house last summer the paint guy was fantastic. -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 10:18:13 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Back in November I was at Home Despot and wanted to buy a specific DeWalt finish nailer. Their online inventory says they've got 22 in stock at the store. Go to the aisle where they're located, no stock. Now understand that the eastside Home Depot in Flagstaff has the best, most responsive and accommodating staff of any big box retailer I've ever experienced. Knowing this, I seek out some help and find someone. They come back and spend a good 10 minutes with me scanning the backstock looking for this nailer. No joy. They call another associate. "If they're not here, they're probably in mixed stock in receiving." So this guy that had been helping me goes back to receiving to start looking through pallets. I hang out in the tool section for a bit, and after about 5 minutes the other guy who came over to assist associate #1 comes running up and says, "I found them! They're in the "racetrack"!!!" Turns out they had been on sale, so they were stocked out in the front of the store where everyone walks by. He calls associate #1 and tells him he found them. Amazing. These guys probably spent a collective 20 minutes or more helping me out. This is typical of the store. I love the place, and have told management about it, too. The Home Despots near my house in Florida suck. You can't find the help if you wanted at them, and when you do, they're rarely of value. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:05 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Kaleb Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Yep, I have run into that at Lowes. Somebody sticks something in the wrong spot and it gets lost. Nobody wants to look for anything either. On 1/3/2022 9:00 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: > I was at Lowes a few weeks ago, wanted to buy a dehumidifier that the website > said was in stock (1 left) and on a closeout sale. > > Got there, none to be found. Website still said one in stock. Internal store > system said one in stock. But not on the shelf, and not in the back room. > Employees just shrugged and updated the inventory to "zero." > > Allan > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling >> prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any >> to sell... >> My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice >> for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 >> choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They >> don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not >> sell. >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via >> Mercedes wrote: >> >> Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely >> selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given >> location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. >> I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. >> I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. >> >> It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. >> >> -D >> >> From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb >> Striplin via Mercedes >> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM >> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Cc: Kaleb Striplin >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries >> >> That sounds about right. >> >> Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a >> smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a >> couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own >> central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or >> train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as >> ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff >> from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in >> bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran
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That's the thing about incentives -- you get what you measure and reward, not necessarily what you intended! On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, at 1:53 AM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: > Another government story. There was some item SWMBO bought at the base > commissary but she could no longer find it. So she found the manager > and inquired. The manager said they no longer carry that item because > it sold so fast they could not keep it in stock. You see, the manager > was penalized for empty shelves but not lost sales. > > -Original Message- > From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Curt Raymond via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:54 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Curt Raymond > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling > prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any > to sell... > My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice > for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 > choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They > don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not > sell. > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via > Mercedes wrote: > > Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely > selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given > location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. > I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. > I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. > > It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. > > -D > > From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb > Striplin via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: Kaleb Striplin > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > That sounds about right. > > Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a > smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a > couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own > central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or > train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores > as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The > stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it > in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran > it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler > same as every other store. After that they were no longer really > competitive and since have been sold off. > > Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, > especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just > get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to > do business. > > On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up >> to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would >> send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast >> right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast >> and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim >> gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying >> stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. >> Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the >> stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other >> store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden >> he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to >> one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't >> sell again... >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the >> overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. >> >> A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 >> or whatever, and let you take it home. >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >>> They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. >>>
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Trivia: Army/Air Force commissaries (grocery stores) havd "bag boys" that bagged your groceries, took them to your car, and loaded them in your trunk. At least they did in my day. These jobs were highly competitive but unpaid; they worked for tips only. I had a Master Sergeant who worked as a "bag boy" off duty. Some of the guys claimed he made more in tips than his military pay. That may not be true but he was very committed to about his off-duty job. -Original Message- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes I think the smaller family owned grocery store chains are becoming a thing of the past. Aside from the one I worked for, there were several other local ones that have been gone for years. The last one we had here started in the 60's but they had fancy stores and their prices were higher, but still locally owned. The chain I worked for was no thrills basic stores for back in the day. No bakery deli, stuff like that. We actually had sackers that bagged your groceries and took them out to the car (my first job when I was 16 years old). Anyway, this last locally owned chain just sold out to some big chain out of Texas. Keeping the same name but I am sure it will not be the same anymore. On 1/3/2022 9:19 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > I just read a short Indianapolis Business Journal story on them. I knew that > Marsh had bought them out, but from what they said in the article Marsh > pretty much abandoned the remaining stores and let them die a slow death. The > one we shopped at when I was a kid on the Southside was one of the last, and > they said it closed in 2016. Too bad, that was a great place. > > -D > > From: Mercedes on behalf of Allan > Streib via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:14 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Allan Streib > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > Yep, we had an O'Malias in Bloomington. My mom loved to shop there. It closed > years ago. There were a couple of butchers in the meat department who had > been in that line of work for years. They started their own independent meat > shop, and it's still doing well. > > Allan > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 10:10 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> Agreed. A coworker founds some sort of DIY Korean stuff we had tried >> at a local restaurant at his Wally World, which is in a very >> different demographic area than where I live. I looked for it at my >> WW and of course, nothing like it. Not even close. >> >> When I was growing up in Indianapolis we had "O'Malia's" grocery >> stores. I think there were only 2-3 of them, family-owned place where >> most of the employees were either family or related in some fashion. >> Great service, selection, and would pretty much order anything you >> wanted if they didn't have it on the shelf. >> >> Old man O'Malia got busted screwing the IRS by not reporting the >> income from the vending machines they had in front of the store. At >> least that was the story, as I recall. I have to believe if he was >> shorting the IRS it wasn't just for the money in the Coke machines. >> Regardless, the Marsh chain bought them out and eventually ran them >> into the ground. I think the last of the 8 stores around town closed in 2016. >> >> -D >> >> From: Curt Raymond >> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:53 PM >> To: Mercedes Discussion List >> Cc: dan penoff.com >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries >> >> Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling >> prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have >> any to sell... >> >> My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any >> choice for most things. For a given category of product they usually >> have 3 choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap >> one. They don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it >> might not sell. >> >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via >> Mercedes wrote: >> >> >> Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely >> selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given >> location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my >> house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never >> have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. >> >> It's amazing how granul
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Another government story. There was some item SWMBO bought at the base commissary but she could no longer find it. So she found the manager and inquired. The manager said they no longer carry that item because it sold so fast they could not keep it in stock. You see, the manager was penalized for empty shelves but not lost sales. -Original Message- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Curt Raymond via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:54 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curt Raymond Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any to sell... My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not sell. -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Kaleb Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive and since have been sold off. Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do business. On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up > to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would > send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast > right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast > and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim > gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock > that doesn't move which affects his bonus. > Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the > stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other > store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he > goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one > of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell > again... > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords > that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. > > A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 > or whatever, and let you take it home. > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >> They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. >> Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a >> customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few >> pennies >> >> --FT >> Sent from iFōn >> >>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >>> wrote: >>> >>> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they >>> handle items that do not "scan" then? >>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>>> I had hea
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Back in a prior life I had a young troop that did not understand why the
Soviet Union was the way it was. I asked if he was familiar with the Air
Force supply system; he said yes and chuckled. Then I told him to imagine
an entire country that "worked" that way. He got it.
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I think the smaller family owned grocery store chains are becoming a thing of the past. Aside from the one I worked for, there were several other local ones that have been gone for years. The last one we had here started in the 60's but they had fancy stores and their prices were higher, but still locally owned. The chain I worked for was no thrills basic stores for back in the day. No bakery deli, stuff like that. We actually had sackers that bagged your groceries and took them out to the car (my first job when I was 16 years old). Anyway, this last locally owned chain just sold out to some big chain out of Texas. Keeping the same name but I am sure it will not be the same anymore. On 1/3/2022 9:19 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: I just read a short Indianapolis Business Journal story on them. I knew that Marsh had bought them out, but from what they said in the article Marsh pretty much abandoned the remaining stores and let them die a slow death. The one we shopped at when I was a kid on the Southside was one of the last, and they said it closed in 2016. Too bad, that was a great place. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Allan Streib via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:14 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Allan Streib Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Yep, we had an O'Malias in Bloomington. My mom loved to shop there. It closed years ago. There were a couple of butchers in the meat department who had been in that line of work for years. They started their own independent meat shop, and it's still doing well. Allan On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 10:10 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Agreed. A coworker founds some sort of DIY Korean stuff we had tried at a local restaurant at his Wally World, which is in a very different demographic area than where I live. I looked for it at my WW and of course, nothing like it. Not even close. When I was growing up in Indianapolis we had "O'Malia's" grocery stores. I think there were only 2-3 of them, family-owned place where most of the employees were either family or related in some fashion. Great service, selection, and would pretty much order anything you wanted if they didn't have it on the shelf. Old man O'Malia got busted screwing the IRS by not reporting the income from the vending machines they had in front of the store. At least that was the story, as I recall. I have to believe if he was shorting the IRS it wasn't just for the money in the Coke machines. Regardless, the Marsh chain bought them out and eventually ran them into the ground. I think the last of the 8 stores around town closed in 2016. -D From: Curt Raymond Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:53 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: dan penoff.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any to sell... My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not sell. -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. -D From: Mercedes mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com>> on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Cc: Kaleb Striplin mailto:ka...@striplin.net>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that
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That sounds right. Marsh is gone now too, at least in Bloomington. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 10:19 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > I just read a short Indianapolis Business Journal story on them. I knew > that Marsh had bought them out, but from what they said in the article > Marsh pretty much abandoned the remaining stores and let them die a > slow death. The one we shopped at when I was a kid on the Southside was > one of the last, and they said it closed in 2016. Too bad, that was a > great place. > > -D > > From: Mercedes on behalf of Allan > Streib via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:14 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Allan Streib > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > Yep, we had an O'Malias in Bloomington. My mom loved to shop there. It > closed years ago. There were a couple of butchers in the meat > department who had been in that line of work for years. They started > their own independent meat shop, and it's still doing well. > > Allan > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 10:10 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> Agreed. A coworker founds some sort of DIY Korean stuff we had tried at >> a local restaurant at his Wally World, which is in a very different >> demographic area than where I live. I looked for it at my WW and of >> course, nothing like it. Not even close. >> >> When I was growing up in Indianapolis we had "O'Malia's" grocery >> stores. I think there were only 2-3 of them, family-owned place where >> most of the employees were either family or related in some fashion. >> Great service, selection, and would pretty much order anything you >> wanted if they didn't have it on the shelf. >> >> Old man O'Malia got busted screwing the IRS by not reporting the income >> from the vending machines they had in front of the store. At least that >> was the story, as I recall. I have to believe if he was shorting the >> IRS it wasn't just for the money in the Coke machines. Regardless, the >> Marsh chain bought them out and eventually ran them into the ground. I >> think the last of the 8 stores around town closed in 2016. >> >> -D >> >> From: Curt Raymond >> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:53 PM >> To: Mercedes Discussion List >> Cc: dan penoff.com >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries >> >> Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling >> prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any >> to sell... >> >> My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice >> for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 >> choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They >> don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not >> sell. >> >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via >> Mercedes wrote: >> >> >> Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective >> and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I >> have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only >> get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen >> similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. >> >> It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. >> >> -D >> >> From: Mercedes >> mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com>> >> on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> >> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM >> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> >> Cc: Kaleb Striplin mailto:ka...@striplin.net>> >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries >> >> That sounds about right. >> >> Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a >> smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a >> couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own >> central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or >> train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as >> ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff >> from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in >> bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and
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I just read a short Indianapolis Business Journal story on them. I knew that Marsh had bought them out, but from what they said in the article Marsh pretty much abandoned the remaining stores and let them die a slow death. The one we shopped at when I was a kid on the Southside was one of the last, and they said it closed in 2016. Too bad, that was a great place. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Allan Streib via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:14 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Allan Streib Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Yep, we had an O'Malias in Bloomington. My mom loved to shop there. It closed years ago. There were a couple of butchers in the meat department who had been in that line of work for years. They started their own independent meat shop, and it's still doing well. Allan On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 10:10 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Agreed. A coworker founds some sort of DIY Korean stuff we had tried at > a local restaurant at his Wally World, which is in a very different > demographic area than where I live. I looked for it at my WW and of > course, nothing like it. Not even close. > > When I was growing up in Indianapolis we had "O'Malia's" grocery > stores. I think there were only 2-3 of them, family-owned place where > most of the employees were either family or related in some fashion. > Great service, selection, and would pretty much order anything you > wanted if they didn't have it on the shelf. > > Old man O'Malia got busted screwing the IRS by not reporting the income > from the vending machines they had in front of the store. At least that > was the story, as I recall. I have to believe if he was shorting the > IRS it wasn't just for the money in the Coke machines. Regardless, the > Marsh chain bought them out and eventually ran them into the ground. I > think the last of the 8 stores around town closed in 2016. > > -D > > From: Curt Raymond > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:53 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: dan penoff.com > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling > prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any > to sell... > > My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice > for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 > choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They > don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not > sell. > > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via > Mercedes wrote: > > > Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective > and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I > have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only > get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen > similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. > > It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. > > -D > > From: Mercedes > mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com>> > on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> > mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> > Cc: Kaleb Striplin mailto:ka...@striplin.net>> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > That sounds about right. > > Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a > smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a > couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own > central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or > train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as > ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff > from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in > bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, > they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same > as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive > and since have been sold off. > > Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, > especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just > get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do > business. > > On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Yup. My cousin worke
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Back in November I was at Home Despot and wanted to buy a specific DeWalt finish nailer. Their online inventory says they've got 22 in stock at the store. Go to the aisle where they're located, no stock. Now understand that the eastside Home Depot in Flagstaff has the best, most responsive and accommodating staff of any big box retailer I've ever experienced. Knowing this, I seek out some help and find someone. They come back and spend a good 10 minutes with me scanning the backstock looking for this nailer. No joy. They call another associate. "If they're not here, they're probably in mixed stock in receiving." So this guy that had been helping me goes back to receiving to start looking through pallets. I hang out in the tool section for a bit, and after about 5 minutes the other guy who came over to assist associate #1 comes running up and says, "I found them! They're in the "racetrack"!!!" Turns out they had been on sale, so they were stocked out in the front of the store where everyone walks by. He calls associate #1 and tells him he found them. Amazing. These guys probably spent a collective 20 minutes or more helping me out. This is typical of the store. I love the place, and have told management about it, too. The Home Despots near my house in Florida suck. You can't find the help if you wanted at them, and when you do, they're rarely of value. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:05 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Kaleb Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Yep, I have run into that at Lowes. Somebody sticks something in the wrong spot and it gets lost. Nobody wants to look for anything either. On 1/3/2022 9:00 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: > I was at Lowes a few weeks ago, wanted to buy a dehumidifier that the website > said was in stock (1 left) and on a closeout sale. > > Got there, none to be found. Website still said one in stock. Internal store > system said one in stock. But not on the shelf, and not in the back room. > Employees just shrugged and updated the inventory to "zero." > > Allan > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling >> prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any >> to sell... >> My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice >> for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 >> choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They >> don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not >> sell. >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via >> Mercedes wrote: >> >> Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely >> selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given >> location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. >> I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. >> I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. >> >> It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. >> >> -D >> >> From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb >> Striplin via Mercedes >> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM >> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Cc: Kaleb Striplin >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries >> >> That sounds about right. >> >> Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a >> smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a >> couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own >> central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or >> train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as >> ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff >> from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in >> bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, >> they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same >> as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive >> and since have been sold off. >> >> Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, >> especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just >> get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do >> business. >> >> On 1/3/
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Yep, we had an O'Malias in Bloomington. My mom loved to shop there. It closed years ago. There were a couple of butchers in the meat department who had been in that line of work for years. They started their own independent meat shop, and it's still doing well. Allan On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 10:10 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Agreed. A coworker founds some sort of DIY Korean stuff we had tried at > a local restaurant at his Wally World, which is in a very different > demographic area than where I live. I looked for it at my WW and of > course, nothing like it. Not even close. > > When I was growing up in Indianapolis we had "O'Malia's" grocery > stores. I think there were only 2-3 of them, family-owned place where > most of the employees were either family or related in some fashion. > Great service, selection, and would pretty much order anything you > wanted if they didn't have it on the shelf. > > Old man O'Malia got busted screwing the IRS by not reporting the income > from the vending machines they had in front of the store. At least that > was the story, as I recall. I have to believe if he was shorting the > IRS it wasn't just for the money in the Coke machines. Regardless, the > Marsh chain bought them out and eventually ran them into the ground. I > think the last of the 8 stores around town closed in 2016. > > -D > > From: Curt Raymond > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:53 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: dan penoff.com > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling > prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any > to sell... > > My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice > for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 > choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They > don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not > sell. > > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via > Mercedes wrote: > > > Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective > and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I > have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only > get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen > similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. > > It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. > > -D > > From: Mercedes > mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com>> > on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> > mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> > Cc: Kaleb Striplin mailto:ka...@striplin.net>> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > That sounds about right. > > Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a > smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a > couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own > central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or > train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as > ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff > from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in > bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, > they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same > as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive > and since have been sold off. > > Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, > especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just > get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do > business. > > On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up >> to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would >> send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast >> right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast >> and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim >> gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying >> stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. >&
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Ahh more memories. I remember when I would get stuck with having to pull the vending machine money. It was shitloads of bills and change and I hated having to run in thru the counter and put it in those sleeves to stock in the office for making change later. On 1/3/2022 9:10 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Agreed. A coworker founds some sort of DIY Korean stuff we had tried at a local restaurant at his Wally World, which is in a very different demographic area than where I live. I looked for it at my WW and of course, nothing like it. Not even close. When I was growing up in Indianapolis we had "O'Malia's" grocery stores. I think there were only 2-3 of them, family-owned place where most of the employees were either family or related in some fashion. Great service, selection, and would pretty much order anything you wanted if they didn't have it on the shelf. Old man O'Malia got busted screwing the IRS by not reporting the income from the vending machines they had in front of the store. At least that was the story, as I recall. I have to believe if he was shorting the IRS it wasn't just for the money in the Coke machines. Regardless, the Marsh chain bought them out and eventually ran them into the ground. I think the last of the 8 stores around town closed in 2016. -D From: Curt Raymond Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:53 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: dan penoff.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any to sell... My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not sell. -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. -D From: Mercedes mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com>> on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Cc: Kaleb Striplin mailto:ka...@striplin.net>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive and since have been sold off. Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do business. On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell again... -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Merced
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Agreed. A coworker founds some sort of DIY Korean stuff we had tried at a local restaurant at his Wally World, which is in a very different demographic area than where I live. I looked for it at my WW and of course, nothing like it. Not even close. When I was growing up in Indianapolis we had "O'Malia's" grocery stores. I think there were only 2-3 of them, family-owned place where most of the employees were either family or related in some fashion. Great service, selection, and would pretty much order anything you wanted if they didn't have it on the shelf. Old man O'Malia got busted screwing the IRS by not reporting the income from the vending machines they had in front of the store. At least that was the story, as I recall. I have to believe if he was shorting the IRS it wasn't just for the money in the Coke machines. Regardless, the Marsh chain bought them out and eventually ran them into the ground. I think the last of the 8 stores around town closed in 2016. -D From: Curt Raymond Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:53 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: dan penoff.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any to sell... My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not sell. -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. -D From: Mercedes mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com>> on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> Cc: Kaleb Striplin mailto:ka...@striplin.net>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive and since have been sold off. Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do business. On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up > to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would > send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast > right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast > and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim > gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock > that doesn't move which affects his bonus. > Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the > stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other > store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he > goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one > of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell > again... > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes > mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > > This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords > that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. > > A local parts store or har
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And probably later, someone finds it, and tries to buy it, and it "won't scan" because it's not supposed to be in stock. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 10:05 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > Yep, I have run into that at Lowes. Somebody sticks something in the > wrong spot and it gets lost. Nobody wants to look for anything either. > > On 1/3/2022 9:00 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: >> I was at Lowes a few weeks ago, wanted to buy a dehumidifier that the >> website said was in stock (1 left) and on a closeout sale. >> >> Got there, none to be found. Website still said one in stock. Internal store >> system said one in stock. But not on the shelf, and not in the back room. >> Employees just shrugged and updated the inventory to "zero." >> >> Allan >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >>> Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling >>> prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any >>> to sell... >>> My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice >>> for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 >>> choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They >>> don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not >>> sell. >>> -Curt >>> >>> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via >>> Mercedes wrote: >>> >>> Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely >>> selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given >>> location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. >>> I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. >>> I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. >>> >>> It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. >>> >>> -D >>> >>> From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb >>> Striplin via Mercedes >>> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM >>> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com >>> Cc: Kaleb Striplin >>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries >>> >>> That sounds about right. >>> >>> Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a >>> smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a >>> couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own >>> central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or >>> train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as >>> ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff >>> from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in >>> bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, >>> they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same >>> as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive >>> and since have been sold off. >>> >>> Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, >>> especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just >>> get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do >>> business. >>> >>> On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >>>> Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his >>>> way up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year >>>> corporate would send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine >>>> is on the coast right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of >>>> Maine is on the coast and people who live inland don't do much salt water >>>> fishing. So cousin Tim gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get >>>> dinged for carrying stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. >>>> Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" >>>> the stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some >>>> other store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a >>>> sudden he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the >>>> store to one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff >>>> he can't sell again.
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Yep, I have run into that at Lowes. Somebody sticks something in the wrong spot and it gets lost. Nobody wants to look for anything either. On 1/3/2022 9:00 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: I was at Lowes a few weeks ago, wanted to buy a dehumidifier that the website said was in stock (1 left) and on a closeout sale. Got there, none to be found. Website still said one in stock. Internal store system said one in stock. But not on the shelf, and not in the back room. Employees just shrugged and updated the inventory to "zero." Allan On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any to sell... My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not sell. -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Kaleb Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive and since have been sold off. Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do business. On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell again... -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few pennies --FT Sent from iFōn On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they handle items that do not "scan" then? On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called manager. Battery is very dusty and
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The small chain I worked for started in 1938. They shut down a bunch of stores about 5 years ago and sold the rest. The new owners sold off others but still retain a few which they renamed. They did keep I believe 3-4 stores with the original name, I guess to keep the 1938 claim. Anyway, yes it was great because we could control what we stocked. On 1/3/2022 8:58 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: I LOVE independent grocery stores because they'll have stuff you can't get anywhere else. In Caribou we've got "Sleepers" which is, unsurprisingly, owned by the Sleeper family since 1914. Ikey went to school with my great aunt Trudy. He's in his '90s now and is in the store at least one day a week in the summer. Last summer they had "Looza" brand apricot, pear and mango juices from Belgium. Go check out how much Amazon will screw you for a bottle. IIRC they were like $4 at Sleepers. Where else can you find a freezer section with a whole cod, rabbit or 20# bag of chicken livers? -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:48:49 PM EST, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: This is sure bringing back memories. We used to have what we called the grocery book. It was basically a stack of those continuous white and green dot matrix sheets which listed every product our wholesaler had available. It was something like 4" thick and we could look thru it to find products to order if looking for new items. Sometimes customers would come in and request certain things and if we had room we could order it and see how it sold. It something did not sell we would mark it down to get rid of it and find something else to put in its place. Now days I am sure all that stuff is all on computer. The only computers we had at the store back then was a 286 which was used for inventory pricing which uploaded price changes to the master register. On 1/3/2022 8:39 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. > > It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. > > -D > > From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: Kaleb Striplin > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > That sounds about right. > > Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a > smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a > couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own > central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or > train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as > ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff > from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in > bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, > they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same > as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive > and since have been sold off. > > Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, > especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just > get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do > business. > > On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. >> Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell again... >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: >> >> This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the
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I was at Lowes a few weeks ago, wanted to buy a dehumidifier that the website said was in stock (1 left) and on a closeout sale. Got there, none to be found. Website still said one in stock. Internal store system said one in stock. But not on the shelf, and not in the back room. Employees just shrugged and updated the inventory to "zero." Allan On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling > prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any > to sell... > My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice > for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 > choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They > don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not > sell. > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via > Mercedes wrote: > > Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely > selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given > location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. > I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. > I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. > > It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. > > -D > > From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb > Striplin via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: Kaleb Striplin > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > That sounds about right. > > Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a > smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a > couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own > central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or > train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as > ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff > from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in > bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, > they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same > as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive > and since have been sold off. > > Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, > especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just > get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do > business. > > On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up >>to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would >>send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast >>right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast >>and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim >>gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock >>that doesn't move which affects his bonus. >> Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the >> stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other >> store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden >> he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to >> one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't >> sell again... >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the >>overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. >> >> A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 >> or whatever, and let you take it home. >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >>> They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. >>> Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a >>> customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few >>> pennies >>> >>> --FT >>> Sent from iFōn >>> >>>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> You'd th
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
I LOVE independent grocery stores because they'll have stuff you can't get anywhere else. In Caribou we've got "Sleepers" which is, unsurprisingly, owned by the Sleeper family since 1914. Ikey went to school with my great aunt Trudy. He's in his '90s now and is in the store at least one day a week in the summer. Last summer they had "Looza" brand apricot, pear and mango juices from Belgium. Go check out how much Amazon will screw you for a bottle. IIRC they were like $4 at Sleepers.Where else can you find a freezer section with a whole cod, rabbit or 20# bag of chicken livers? -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:48:49 PM EST, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: This is sure bringing back memories. We used to have what we called the grocery book. It was basically a stack of those continuous white and green dot matrix sheets which listed every product our wholesaler had available. It was something like 4" thick and we could look thru it to find products to order if looking for new items. Sometimes customers would come in and request certain things and if we had room we could order it and see how it sold. It something did not sell we would mark it down to get rid of it and find something else to put in its place. Now days I am sure all that stuff is all on computer. The only computers we had at the store back then was a 286 which was used for inventory pricing which uploaded price changes to the master register. On 1/3/2022 8:39 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and > solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three > "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at > one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for > foodstuffs in their grocery, too. > > It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. > > -D > > From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin > via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: Kaleb Striplin > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > That sounds about right. > > Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a > smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a > couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own > central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or > train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as > ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff > from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in > bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, > they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same > as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive > and since have been sold off. > > Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, > especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just > get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do > business. > > On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way >>up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would >>send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast >>right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast >>and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim >>gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock >>that doesn't move which affects his bonus. >> Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the >> stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other >> store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden >> he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to >> one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't >> sell again... >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the >>overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. >> >> A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 >> or whatever, and let you take it home. >> >> >> On Mon,
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Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have any to sell... My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any choice for most things. For a given category of product they usually have 3 choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap one. They don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it might not sell. -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Kaleb Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive and since have been sold off. Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do business. On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up >to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would >send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast >right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast >and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim >gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock >that doesn't move which affects his bonus. > Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the > stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other > store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he > goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one > of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell > again... > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords >that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. > > A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 > or whatever, and let you take it home. > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >> They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. >> Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a >> customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few >> pennies >> >> --FT >> Sent from iFōn >> >>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >>> wrote: >>> >>> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they >>> handle items that do not "scan" then? >>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was >>>> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf >>>> for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused >>>> and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on >>>> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year >>>> but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager >>>> shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also
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This is sure bringing back memories. We used to have what we called the grocery book. It was basically a stack of those continuous white and green dot matrix sheets which listed every product our wholesaler had available. It was something like 4" thick and we could look thru it to find products to order if looking for new items. Sometimes customers would come in and request certain things and if we had room we could order it and see how it sold. It something did not sell we would mark it down to get rid of it and find something else to put in its place. Now days I am sure all that stuff is all on computer. The only computers we had at the store back then was a 286 which was used for inventory pricing which uploaded price changes to the master register. On 1/3/2022 8:39 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Kaleb Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive and since have been sold off. Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do business. On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell again... -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few pennies --FT Sent from iFōn On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they handle items that do not "scan" then? On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. Sent from
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too. It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory. -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Kaleb Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive and since have been sold off. Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do business. On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up > to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would > send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast > right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast > and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim > gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock > that doesn't move which affects his bonus. > Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the > stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other > store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he > goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one > of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell > again... > -Curt > > On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the > overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. > > A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 > or whatever, and let you take it home. > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >> They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. >> Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a >> customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few >> pennies >> >> --FT >> Sent from iFōn >> >>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >>> wrote: >>> >>> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they >>> handle items that do not "scan" then? >>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was >>>> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf >>>> for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused >>>> and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on >>>> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year >>>> but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager >>>> shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have >>>> not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 >>>> minutes of my life. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> ___ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/merce
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
That sounds about right. Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it, they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive and since have been sold off. Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores, especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do business. On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell again... -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few pennies --FT Sent from iFōn On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they handle items that do not "scan" then? On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
That is what I was trying to do, but they just stood there scratching their heads. I would still like to buy one of theirs since they are the cheapest available but I do not see any in stock at any store near me besides the store I was at, which showed 1 in stock. Rest just say to check at store. On 1/3/2022 8:16 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few pennies --FT Sent from iFōn On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they handle items that do not "scan" then? On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked his way up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year corporate would send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear. Maine is on the coast right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not all of Maine is on the coast and people who live inland don't do much salt water fishing. So cousin Tim gets stuck with all this crap he can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock that doesn't move which affects his bonus. Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to "lose" the stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it to some other store or what went on but he got it off his books somehow. All of a sudden he goes from being one of the worst performing departments in the store to one of the best. Big bonus. Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell again... -Curt On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: > They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. > Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a > customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few > pennies > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they >> handle items that do not "scan" then? >> >>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was >>> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf >>> for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused >>> and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on >>> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year >>> but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager >>> shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have >>> not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 >>> minutes of my life. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> ___ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
True. I would have liked to have bought it for a discount, not sure if I would really want to pay full price for one that has been on the shelf for 9 months. On 1/3/2022 8:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few pennies --FT Sent from iFōn On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they handle items that do not "scan" then? On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
My guess is those are closouts that are still in "the system." They seem to have no way for the local manager to override "the system" when the item doesn't appear at all. Probably to prevent dishonest managers from discounting stuff for their friends. It's a symptom of not trusting their own employees. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:21 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > I understand what you're saying, but how does that explain the > "markdown" shelves I see at both Home Despot and Lowe's? > > -D > > From: Mercedes on behalf of Allan > Streib via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:16 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Allan Streib > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the > overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. > > A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up > $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home. > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >> They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. >> Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a >> customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few >> pennies >> >> --FT >> Sent from iFōn >> >>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >>> wrote: >>> >>> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they >>> handle items that do not "scan" then? >>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was >>>> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf >>>> for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused >>>> and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on >>>> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year >>>> but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager >>>> shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have >>>> not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 >>>> minutes of my life. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> ___ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> ___ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
I understand what you're saying, but how does that explain the "markdown" shelves I see at both Home Despot and Lowe's? -D From: Mercedes on behalf of Allan Streib via Mercedes Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:16 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Allan Streib Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: > They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. > Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a > customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few > pennies > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they >> handle items that do not "scan" then? >> >>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was >>> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf >>> for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused >>> and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on >>> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year >>> but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager >>> shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have >>> not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 >>> minutes of my life. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> ___ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around the overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated. A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring up $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home. On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: > They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. > Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a > customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few > pennies > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they >> handle items that do not "scan" then? >> >>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was >>> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf >>> for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused >>> and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on >>> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year >>> but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager >>> shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have >>> not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 >>> minutes of my life. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> ___ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go. Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few pennies --FT Sent from iFōn > On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they > handle items that do not "scan" then? > >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was >> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf >> for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused >> and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on >> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year >> but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager >> shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have >> not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 >> minutes of my life. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder how they handle items that do not "scan" then? On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was > going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf > for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused > and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on > it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year > but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager > shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have > not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 > minutes of my life. > > Sent from my iPhone > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
These people were too confused, even the manager. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 3, 2022, at 6:29 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > Used to be able to make deals with HD and lowes for stuff like that. > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 7:26 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> Yep. No dice. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 5:45 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: >>> >>> Did you offer to take it off their unmoved inventory? >>> >>> --FT >>> Sent from iFōn >>> > On Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> ___ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
Used to be able to make deals with HD and lowes for stuff like that. --FT Sent from iFōn > On Jan 3, 2022, at 7:26 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > Yep. No dice. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 5:45 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> Did you offer to take it off their unmoved inventory? >> >> --FT >> Sent from iFōn >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>> >>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going >>> to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. >>> Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called >>> manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s >>> been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is >>> labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it >>> doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” >>> since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> ___ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
Yep. No dice. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 3, 2022, at 5:45 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > Did you offer to take it off their unmoved inventory? > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to >> be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. >> Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called >> manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s been >> sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled >> 2 year. This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t >> scan they can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since >> middle of last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> ___ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
Did you offer to take it off their unmoved inventory? --FT Sent from iFōn > On Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to > be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. Went > to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called manager. > Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s been sitting > there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled 2 year. > This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they > can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last > year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. > > Sent from my iPhone > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Home Despot batteries
I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on the shelf for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very confused and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April 21 on it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3 year but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also they have not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30 minutes of my life. Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
