Re: [MBZ] OT so I was just down the road

[Scott Ritchey via Mercedes]

How about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1sIzPX_0c


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From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 7:56 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List 
Cc: Buggered Benzmail 
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT so I was just down the road

I don’t think so, it would have just been louder and more annoying 

--FT
Sent from iFōn

> On Jan 3, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes 
>  wrote:
> 
> I wonder if the Ferrari would have sounded better if it had been revved much 
> higher?
> 
> Randy
> 
>> On 1/3/2022 4:02 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote:
>> At the grocery store and this guy in a little Ferrari of some sort is 
>> cruising through. The thing sounded like some slammed sh*tbox ricer Honda 
>> Civic with a fart can exhaust. Truly awful and annoying. Then a woman goes 
>> by in one of those Porch 2-seaters, a cayman?  And it sounded good. Both 
>> 6-poppers I guess but the eyetalian car was just nasty.
>> 
>> First-world problems…
>> 
>> --FT
>> 
> 
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Scott Ritchey via Mercedes]

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 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>>
>> Cc: Kaleb Striplin mailto:ka...@striplin.net>>
>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
>>
>> That sounds about right.

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Scott Ritchey via Mercedes]

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 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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Scott Ritchey via Mercedes]

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.

-Original Message-
From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:41 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List 
Cc: Jim Cathey 
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

Another victory for the wisdom of central planning!
("This time for sure...")

-- Jim


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[MBZ] I believe the price is reasonable. If you do not, move on.

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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[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 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>>
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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

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>>
>> 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. 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[dan penoff.com via Mercedes]

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>>
> 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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[dan penoff.com via Mercedes]

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 1/3/2022 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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

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>>
> 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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

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>>
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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[dan penoff.com via Mercedes]

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>>
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 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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

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...
 -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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

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 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 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

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 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:
>>> 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

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 sticker says April 21 on
> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Curt Raymond via Mercedes]

 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, 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:

 

Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Curt Raymond via Mercedes]

 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 they have
 not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30
 minutes of my life.

 Sent from my iPhone

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[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

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 my iPhone

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[Jim Cathey via Mercedes]

Another victory for the wisdom of central planning!
("This time for sure...")

-- Jim


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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[dan penoff.com via Mercedes]

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.

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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

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.

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[MBZ] OT Volvo heater blower

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

Blower in the XC90 suddenly not working today. Checked the fuse, it was OK. 
Replaced it anyway just in case, nothing.

The official R calls for removing half the dash. It's about $1,000 job at the 
stealer.

YouTuber has posted a way to break a plastic tab and do the job in an hour. 
Will be watching later tonight. We'll see how this goes.

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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

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.

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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Curt Raymond via Mercedes]

 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. 
>>> 
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

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.

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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

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.

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[MBZ] Copart

[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

I finally broke down and paid the $59 for a membership that would allow 
me to bid. I wanted to bid on this:


https://www.copart.com/lot/66367701

I put in a prebid of $2200 (min bid) with a max of $3k.  Probably too 
much but if it turns out to be decent and not need an engine like that 
other one I had, might not be a bad deal.  Anyway, auction was today so 
I watched it online.  It was odd some turd cars were selling for big 
bucks and others I figured would bring a lot had hardly any action.  
What I still can't figure out is there are bidders from all these 3rd 
world countries throwing out big bids on these cars.  Most of the 
bidders were from somewhere else.  Honduras, Nigeria, UAE, Russia, every 
country you can think of.  Some of these bids I do not see how they 
would make any money on them locally much less shipping them all over 
the world.


Anyway, my prebid of $2200 was the only bid, its awaiting seller 
response as they have a buy it now of $4000.  No way this is worth that 
as it would be $5k after copart fees.  I went and looked at it in person 
today.  It needs tires, some interior cleaning, and of course a rear 
glass but the engine looks clean without oil blowing everywhere, coolant 
looks good, oil level good.   Battery completely dead.  No mention if it 
runs or not but I would say there is a good chance it does.



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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[dan penoff.com via Mercedes]

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.
>>>
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

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. 
>>> 
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

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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 

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> 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. 
>> 
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Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

MB Tex was the distant ancestor of vegan upholstery.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 8:44 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
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> Wasn’t that called “MBTex”?
>
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> Sent from iFōn
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> > On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:19 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > Fisker uses vegan leather too.
> >
> >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, 7:02 PM Clay via Mercedes 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Vegan leather = Mango fruit leather
> >>
> >> Clay
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 2:57 PM, OK Don via Mercedes  >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38651341/mercedes-benz-vision-eqxx-concept-revealed/
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> OK Don
> >>>
> >>> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
> >>> pause and reflect." Mark Twain
> >>>
> >>> “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”
> >> Wernher
> >>> Von Braun
> >>> 2013 F150, 18 mpg
> >>> 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
> >>> 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph!
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

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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. 
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Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

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Wasn’t that called “MBTex”?

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> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:19 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes 
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> 
> Fisker uses vegan leather too.
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, 7:02 PM Clay via Mercedes 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Vegan leather = Mango fruit leather
>> 
>> Clay
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 2:57 PM, OK Don via Mercedes 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>> https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38651341/mercedes-benz-vision-eqxx-concept-revealed/
>>> 
>>> --
>>> OK Don
>>> 
>>> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
>>> pause and reflect." Mark Twain
>>> 
>>> “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”
>> Wernher
>>> Von Braun
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>>> 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
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Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

Fisker uses vegan leather too.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, 7:02 PM Clay via Mercedes 
wrote:

> Vegan leather = Mango fruit leather
>
> Clay
>
>
> > On Jan 3, 2022, at 2:57 PM, OK Don via Mercedes 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38651341/mercedes-benz-vision-eqxx-concept-revealed/
> >
> > --
> > OK Don
> >
> > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
> > pause and reflect." Mark Twain
> >
> > “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”
> Wernher
> > Von Braun
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> > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
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Re: [MBZ] OT so I was just down the road

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I don’t think so, it would have just been louder and more annoying 

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> On Jan 3, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes 
>  wrote:
> 
> I wonder if the Ferrari would have sounded better if it had been revved much 
> higher?
> 
> Randy
> 
>> On 1/3/2022 4:02 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote:
>> At the grocery store and this guy in a little Ferrari of some sort is 
>> cruising through. The thing sounded like some slammed sh*tbox ricer Honda 
>> Civic with a fart can exhaust. Truly awful and annoying. Then a woman goes 
>> by in one of those Porch 2-seaters, a cayman?  And it sounded good. Both 
>> 6-poppers I guess but the eyetalian car was just nasty.
>> 
>> First-world problems…
>> 
>> --FT
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Re: [MBZ] OT so I was just down the road

[Randy Bennell via Mercedes]

I wonder if the Ferrari would have sounded better if it had been revved 
much higher?


Randy

On 1/3/2022 4:02 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote:

At the grocery store and this guy in a little Ferrari of some sort is cruising 
through. The thing sounded like some slammed sh*tbox ricer Honda Civic with a 
fart can exhaust. Truly awful and annoying. Then a woman goes by in one of 
those Porch 2-seaters, a cayman?  And it sounded good. Both 6-poppers I guess 
but the eyetalian car was just nasty.

First-world problems…

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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

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These people were too confused, even the manager. 

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> 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
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>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 7:26 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Yep. No dice. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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 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. 
 
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

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Used to be able to make deals with HD and lowes for stuff like that. 

--FT
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> On Jan 3, 2022, at 7:26 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes 
>  wrote:
> 
> Yep. No dice. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> 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. 
>>> 
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

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Yep. No dice. 

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> 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. 
>> 
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Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

[Clay via Mercedes]

Vegan leather = Mango fruit leather

Clay


> On Jan 3, 2022, at 2:57 PM, OK Don via Mercedes  wrote:
> 
> https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38651341/mercedes-benz-vision-eqxx-concept-revealed/
> 
> -- 
> OK Don
> 
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
> pause and reflect." Mark Twain
> 
> “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”  Wernher
> Von Braun
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[MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

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https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38651341/mercedes-benz-vision-eqxx-concept-revealed/

-- 
OK Don

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect." Mark Twain

“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”  Wernher
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Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries

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Did you offer to take it off their unmoved inventory?

--FT
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> 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. 
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[MBZ] Home Despot batteries

[Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes]

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. 

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Re: [MBZ] Yea no

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Extra 0 in price 

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> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1034178220532326/
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https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1034178220532326/


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[MBZ] OT so I was just down the road

[Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes]

At the grocery store and this guy in a little Ferrari of some sort is cruising 
through. The thing sounded like some slammed sh*tbox ricer Honda Civic with a 
fart can exhaust. Truly awful and annoying. Then a woman goes by in one of 
those Porch 2-seaters, a cayman?  And it sounded good. Both 6-poppers I guess 
but the eyetalian car was just nasty. 

First-world problems…

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Re: [MBZ] Some rust is present on the body 1977 Mercedes-Benz 280E - $12, 000

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Not really. Can't hear the engine when under 75mph.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 3:37 PM Floyd Thursby 
wrote:

> They are fun too
>
> --FT
> On 1/3/22 12:00 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
>
> The whole charm of the W123 series is that they are DIESELS.  Why would
> you want a 6 cyl. gas car?
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 9:36 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> Reads like a BaT ad for a crappy car
>>
>>
>> https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/holly-springs-1977-mercedes-benz-280e/7427840133.html
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Re: [MBZ] Carvana BEE-klasse not getting a lot of love -- 2015 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive Hatchback 4D hatchback Gray - $18, 590 (TOUCHLESS DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME)

[dan penoff.com via Mercedes]

The point being that outside of the delivery damage, there were other things 
that were supposed to be resolved on the car prior to delivery that weren’t. 
I’ve read on more than one occasion that Carvana makes promises to sort things 
but doesn’t.

I suspect they do this assuming the (sucker) owner is just going to take the 
car anyway, or they won’t check on everything.

Reminds me of the days when I was a kid and my Dad got program cars from GM. He 
would always take delivery, drive it for a few days, then return it to the 
dealership with a laundry list of stuff to fix.

-D

> On Jan 3, 2022, at 2:10 PM, mitch--- via Mercedes  
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> 
> On 2022-01-03 15:55, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:
>> TOUCHLESS DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME
>> https://jalopnik.com/carvana-literally-dropped-off-a-customers-hyundai-genes-1848288414
> 
> Fluid leaks on a 10k mile car?
> Perhaps it was rebuilt salvage, but maybe with a clean title...
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Re: [MBZ] Carvana BEE-klasse not getting a lot of love -- 2015 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive Hatchback 4D hatchback Gray - $18, 590 (TOUCHLESS DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME)

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

Pretty tough to think about spending nearly $20K for a car with an 80 mile 
range (probably less, since it's 6 years old now).


On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 3:55 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:
> TOUCHLESS DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME 
> https://jalopnik.com/carvana-literally-dropped-off-a-customers-hyundai-genes-1848288414
>
> To be fair, the driver only touched it gently when s/he/it tried to stop it
>
> https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/ctd/d/largo-2015-mercedes-benz-class-electric/7427972420.html
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Re: [MBZ] Carvana BEE-klasse not getting a lot of love -- 2015 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive Hatchback 4D hatchback Gray - $18, 590 (TOUCHLESS DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME)

[mitch--- via Mercedes]

On 2022-01-03 15:55, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:

TOUCHLESS DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME
https://jalopnik.com/carvana-literally-dropped-off-a-customers-hyundai-genes-1848288414


Fluid leaks on a 10k mile car?
Perhaps it was rebuilt salvage, but maybe with a clean title...

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[MBZ] Carvana BEE-klasse not getting a lot of love -- 2015 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive Hatchback 4D hatchback Gray - $18, 590 (TOUCHLESS DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME)

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

TOUCHLESS DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME 
https://jalopnik.com/carvana-literally-dropped-off-a-customers-hyundai-genes-1848288414


To be fair, the driver only touched it gently when s/he/it tried to stop it

https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/ctd/d/largo-2015-mercedes-benz-class-electric/7427972420.html


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Re: [MBZ] Some rust is present on the body 1977 Mercedes-Benz 280E - $12, 000

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

They are fun too

--FT

On 1/3/22 12:00 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
The whole charm of the W123 series is that they are DIESELS.  Why 
would you want a 6 cyl. gas car?


On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 9:36 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes 
 wrote:


Reads like a BaT ad for a crappy car


https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/holly-springs-1977-mercedes-benz-280e/7427840133.html

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Re: [MBZ] ‘08 GL320 CDI

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

OK so add $750 - 1000 and it isn't such a great bargain.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 12:12 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes <
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> "I priced it low because it needs new tires."
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 12:03 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
> > This looks like a steal at $4k so there is probably a serious catch
> > somewhere
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
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> >
> >> Is that a Black Death engine?
> >>
> >> --FT
> >> Sent from iFōn
> >>
> >> > On Jan 3, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes <
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> >> >
> >> > I don’t know a great deal about these.  CDI more desirable than
> Blutec,
> >> yes?
> >> >
> >> > AZBob
> >> >
> >> > Sent from my iPhone
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> >> >
> >> >> From: robert.rent...@aps.com
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> >> >>
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Re: [MBZ] ‘08 GL320 CDI

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

"I priced it low because it needs new tires."


On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 12:03 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
> This looks like a steal at $4k so there is probably a serious catch
> somewhere
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> Is that a Black Death engine?
>>
>> --FT
>> Sent from iFōn
>>
>> > On Jan 3, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I don’t know a great deal about these.  CDI more desirable than Blutec,
>> yes?
>> >
>> > AZBob
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
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>> > Begin forwarded message:
>> >
>> >> From: robert.rent...@aps.com
>> >> Date: January 3, 2022 at 7:47:11 AM MST
>> >> To: azbob...@gmail.com
>> >>
>> >> 
>> >>
>> https://staugustine.craigslist.org/cto/d/east-palatka-2008-mercedes-benz-gl-320/7427635020.html
>> >>
>> >>
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Re: [MBZ] ‘08 GL320 CDI

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

This looks like a steal at $4k so there is probably a serious catch
somewhere

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
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> Is that a Black Death engine?
>
> --FT
> Sent from iFōn
>
> > On Jan 3, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don’t know a great deal about these.  CDI more desirable than Blutec,
> yes?
> >
> > AZBob
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> > Sent from my iPhone
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> >
> >> From: robert.rent...@aps.com
> >> Date: January 3, 2022 at 7:47:11 AM MST
> >> To: azbob...@gmail.com
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> https://staugustine.craigslist.org/cto/d/east-palatka-2008-mercedes-benz-gl-320/7427635020.html
> >>
> >>
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Re: [MBZ] Perfect Florida Colors -- 2006 Mercedes-Benz S-Class S 500 4MATIC Sedan 4D, $12, 999

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

Not to mention the broadloom on the floor.

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> Plus pimp wheels!
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Re: [MBZ] Some rust is present on the body 1977 Mercedes-Benz 280E - $12, 000

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

The whole charm of the W123 series is that they are DIESELS.  Why would you
want a 6 cyl. gas car?

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 9:36 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
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> Reads like a BaT ad for a crappy car
>
>
> https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/holly-springs-1977-mercedes-benz-280e/7427840133.html
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[MBZ] 2003 S430 - 170k miles - $3,800

[Allan Streib via Mercedes]

"unlike no other"

https://dayton.craigslist.org/cto/d/miamisburg-custom-amazing-mercedes-s430/7427931120.html

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Re: [MBZ] Interesting picture

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

"Converted to veggie oil but blew the head."

I'm not sure I want to go there...

--FT

On 1/3/22 10:55 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:

Not really sure what they're 
selling:https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/438458564429569/
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[MBZ] Interesting picture

[Curt Raymond via Mercedes]

Not really sure what they're selling: 
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/438458564429569/
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[MBZ] Neither Silver nor Champagne

[Bob Rentfro via Mercedes]

Where does one ask if there is rust on these? I’d be looking at it if it were 
closer. 

AZBob 
> 
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Re: [MBZ] I Think this Was Posted Already. Black Death?

[Rick Knoble via Mercedes]

OM642 I guess they can get black death, but not really noted for that. Oil 
cooler issues, and they need to be run on the highway, not short trips (dpf 
Regen cycle).

http://www.stephensservice.com/bluetec-diesel-issuesproblems/

https://youtu.be/zP9eWTbE7Ow

https://youtu.be/vPedvPB5Drw

https://youtu.be/Sp2f9hlOpZA

https://youtu.be/_j9vMzgnyfc



Rick

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Subject: [MBZ] I Think this Was Posted Already. Black Death?

What engine is of the Black Death concern? Guess I better get smart if my 
shopping is to include these.
Is this a good one?

AZBob
>
> 
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[MBZ] I Think this Was Posted Already. Black Death?

[Bob Rentfro via Mercedes]

What engine is of the Black Death concern? Guess I better get smart if my 
shopping is to include these. 
Is this a good one? 

AZBob
> 
> 
> https://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/d/cornelius-2007-mercedes-benz-ml-320-cdi/7427400965.html
>  
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Re: [MBZ] ‘08 GL320 CDI

[Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes]

Is that a Black Death engine?

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Sent from iFōn

> On Jan 3, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes  
> wrote:
> 
> I don’t know a great deal about these.  CDI more desirable than Blutec, yes?
> 
> AZBob
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>> To: azbob...@gmail.com
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>> 
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[MBZ] Black/black E500 4m wagon -- 2004 Mercedes-Benz E-Class, $4, 000

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

147kmi, shows a bit of wear

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4843325249022884

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[MBZ] Perfect Florida Colors -- 2006 Mercedes-Benz S-Class S 500 4MATIC Sedan 4D, $12, 999

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

Plus pimp wheels!

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1920060001514091

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[MBZ] ‘08 GL320 CDI

[Bob Rentfro via Mercedes]

I don’t know a great deal about these.  CDI more desirable than Blutec, yes?

AZBob

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[MBZ] Rat Rod potential -- The engine and transmission are no longer in the vehicle 1966 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Fintail, $1, 000

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

   Seller's Description

The vehicle is a 1966 Mercedes Benz 230s Fintail sedan. The vehicle has 
very rusty floors that will need to be repaired and replaced. The car 
was modified before and the person who did the swap hacked the drive 
shaft together and it broke and cut through the floor (vehicle needs 
floors regardless of this damage) and will need a proper driveshaft. 
Pictures are included of the floors, including the damage to tunnel. The 
body is all there and all the exterior trims and lights are there. It’s 
on the original 13” wheels and I do have all 4 center caps. The engine 
and transmission are no longer in the vehicle and not included in the 
sale. I am open to reasonable offers. Feel free to ask any questions you 
may have.


https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/456253539274893

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[MBZ] Some rust is present on the body 1977 Mercedes-Benz 280E - $12, 000

[Floyd Thursby via Mercedes]

Reads like a BaT ad for a crappy car

https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/holly-springs-1977-mercedes-benz-280e/7427840133.html

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Re: [MBZ] 2002 ML500 - 104k miles - $3,600

[Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes]

Pics taken at different times. Pine trees hanging all over in some pics and not 
in others 

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> 5 cylinder gas engine.  Really?
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>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 11:22 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes <
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>> Looks in reasonably good condition, no tow hitch though.
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Re: [MBZ] 2002 ML500 - 104k miles - $3,600

[Bob Rentfro via Mercedes]

That needs to be closer to me. 

AZBob

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> 5 cylinder gas engine.  Really?
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>> Looks in reasonably good condition, no tow hitch though.
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