Because they didn't. Still massive numbers of hamburger restaurants that do quite well selling higher quality products.
Also, look at In 'N Out, a privately held company that treats its employees very well. They have driven three Burger King's in my area out of business within months after opening close by. The McDonald's near the In 'N Outs are very quiet at lunch, but since In 'N Out doesn't server breakfast, or fish, or chicken, or salads, McDonald's has scraped by.
Really? I have an excellent independent burger place within a block and a half of my house. I don't even know where the nearest McSlopple's is, and I don't care.
That's true. The last carpet I bought, about 3 weeks ago, I didn't even have to go to a store, the owner came to me. Plus, I hate Pepsi, I only drink cane sugar Coke in terms of colas.
I checked out Home Depot as well. For the same grade of carpet they were about 50% more expensive, plus they had a longer lead time. They insisted that it would take two weeks, minimum, to get the carpet from the mill in Georgia, to their store in California, and said that they were the largest carpet retailer in the country and that no smaller store could get it any faster.
In fact, one store I looked at, that was about $300 more than where I bought it, stocked the carpet I wanted, and if I had chosen a more standard color for rentals, I could have gotten it in one day. Home Depot stocks some carpet, but it's the lowest grade polyester carpets, not nylon.
Similarly, Home Depot was much more expensive for cabinets, tile, granite, shower enclosures, and electrical.
Many people just automatically go to Home Depot because they think the alternatives are always higher priced because they're looking at stores like Carpet 1, or the highbrow kitchen and bath remodeling stores. They don't know where to go, and they pay for their lack of knowledge.
Just because someone is the lowest bidder doesn't mean that they don't know what they are doing.
Like I said, the company I used to work for installed their shower doors and we were considered one of the best glass companies in town. (they're still considered one of the best)
It's also the same deal with big construction jobs. In order to get the work you have to out bid the other companies. I remember working for a very small company one time and we routinely out bid the big boys.
That is how you build that type of business and get a good reputation.
Robert, you're complaining to the wrong guy about the wrong problem. You
*should* be complaining to Steve (to whom Ron replied) about his use of a peculiar character set in his 'From:' headers. I see no HTML in any of the posts by either of them.
Just a note, I just had to make an emergency trip to Lowes (slightly closer than Home Depot, seems better in my area than the Home Depot but prices are about the same).
Plumber is here. I split a pipe (frozen copper line) over the washing machine room which is exterior. The pipe heater had quit and we didnt know it. Got 2 rolls of insulation (room didnt have any), several rolls of various types of small pipe insulation, 2 pipe heaters (he showed us a second one in the garage that was bare so we are going to insulate that too later), some wire stuff to hold the insulation between the studs, etc. While he worked, we got the rest of the stuff he needed for the job. Simple and easy.
FACT: Big box stores opened, smaller specialty stores closed.
There is no place in this town where someone without a contractor's license can buy plumbing supplies except the big boxes. There is one electrical supplier that will sell to anyone. --There are a couple hardware stores left, but selections are limited & prices are high.
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My mistake. I am getting a horrendous large type post from whomever is setting it that way. Steve, if it is you, please stop. I assumed it was html from the garbled text that comes up on my screen.
I checked the posts though a "real" news reader and I think it may be "SMS???.?" that has the problem. Funny thing is, his post look more like plain text than anyone else.
I see the same thing here with the weird hard to read fonts and it seems like SMS???s extended ASCII is doing it although his posts display like plain text.
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