Well, WHY would you go to Walmart for home repair items or farming equipment?
Walmart would die off if people would go to the real stores that specialize in their field rather than the HUGE junk store known as WalMart.
That's an interesting question. Would Lowe's or Home Depot be carrying weatherstripping in the summer? Space at most stores (even huge ones) is at a premium and a product that's not likely to be needed in the summer isn't likely to be carried.
They do in the stores around here.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:45:58 GMT, "Noozer" wrote:
Well, normally I wouldn't, but the nearest building center is about 50 miles away. I live in a rural area. With the price of gas, I have to choose between the local hardware store that charges 3 or more times the price of Home Depot or Menards, or go to Walfart. Since it was around midnight I had little choice and I was going to Walfart anyhow for some groceries and normal home stuff. I never even gave it a thought that they would not have the weatherstripping. The last time I looked they had a fairly good stock of it, but that was in late winter. The weatherstripping section used up about 5 feet of shelf space in the hardware dept. I dont think that is too much space to ask for, when they now have about 300 feet of shelf space filled with back to school supplies. Do they really need that much space for notebooks and pencils? The Walfart hardware dept. is pretty poor as it is, at least they could keep some stock on hand of all the usual stuff they sell. I bet they have some in the back anyhow, and I know for fact that they had hoses in back when I needed one a few winters ago. The reason I know, is because the guy in the christmas dept. (formerly garden center), said they have all kinds of garden supplies in back but they cant sell them unless they are on the shelf. Walfart is not there to satisfy customers, they are just there to collect our money. Hell, if I ran a store of any type, and a customer came in asking for a hose, and there were some in back, I'd go out of my way to both satisfy the customer and make a sale. Not only did they piss this customer off (me), but they lost the profit they could have made on spending a few minutes getting a hose or weatherstrip from the back room.
Only a fool buys home'n'garden tools, hardware and building supplies at Wally World. Poor selection, lousy quality, and less than good prices in most cases, in my experience. A real building supply will always have weatherstripping, and a real farm supply (TSC, Quality Farm&Fleet, or local Ma'n'Pa) will always have hoses. A big-box home center will have both most of the time. More often than not, there is a Lowes within 3 miles of a Super Wally World, often they are right across the parking lot.
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So move to a big city area. I can buy anything I want within a 10 mile radius. You get used to the traffic ;) Frank
Weatherstripping is needed more in the winter because the temp differential between the indoors and outdoors could be up to 100 degrees different. In the summer, probably no more than 20 degrees.
Shelf space isn't infinite, and WalMart has better things to do than carry an off-season item that hardware stores have.
So WalMart invests in your community, stays open at God awful hours to accomodate your schedule, and charges less which helps YOU, and you HATE them? You're a joke.
What you just wrote will be available via a google search for a very long time, and your family & friends will be able to see it. Too bad you didn't think before you wrote it.
Do you think nobody installs doors & windows in the summer, which often includes adding weatherstripping?
You might need that local hardware store one day, for intelligent advice.
My local Home Depot does NOT carry Kerosene during the summer (but has lots in the winter).
As for WalMart not carrying weatherstripping in the winter (to make room for Christmas items), well, they don't carry Santas in the summer either.
Well ...
Usually "weatherstripping" is for older doors and windows which either didn't have effective sealing in the first place or the stuff has failed.
Even in hardward stores, the selection of such stuff in summer is not as good as it is close to the start of "heating season."
Nobody installs doors or windows in the summer. I didn't know this. Thanks for teaching us about this.
Big-box stores in Canada sell weatherstripping
12 months of the year. Many homeowners prefer to instal new weatherstripping in warm summer weather rather than cold weather.
Apparently not. ;-) The HD here seems only to have weatherstripping stuff left over from last year. I was looking for door bottoms - no luck.
I was thinking the same thing. Here, in upstate NY, I always do all the winter-proofing in the summer, long before I need to turn on the heat.
Walfart dont sell weatherstripping in summer. Is their staff so retarded that they dont know that weatherstripping is not just to keep heat indoors but also to keep air conditioned air inside?
In my case I just changed a shed door and because of poor design it rattles. I just wanted it put some of that self adhesive foam stripping to make it fit better. I was shocked when the clerk at Walfart told me they dont sell weatherstripping in summer. This is a "Super Walfart", you know, one of those stores that are so damn huge that it takes a half hour to go all the way around the store. They carry at least 20 brands of chicken noodle soup, yet they cant keep a few rolls of weatherstripping on hand?????? This is the same store that dont sell garden hoses in winter, at their stores located in farming communities. Ummmmm, like how the hell does a farmer get the water from the faucet to the cattle tank? Heaven forbid what would happen if they didn't fill their entire store with christmas junk.....
Not the same thing but slightly related:
50+ years ago, when I was 8 or 9, I noticed that when the supermarket didn't have a box of cereal with the "prize"** I wanted, I could go to the corner market and was more likely to be able to get it. I realized then that that was because the stock turned over more slowly at the little store, and even though they got new stock when they ordered, they ordered less frequently and took longer to sell what they received. **In the old days, prizes, premiums, were almost always in the box. None of this mailing in to get it. Although I think I had to write away to get my baking soda powered submarine and my baking soda powered skin divers.
I'm sure they do. In the past, one of the big jobs of a store owner/manager was to know how much of everything to order. Some could keep track of what they sold last year, but others weren't so good at it. Now they have sales records, going back for years, and for every store, on computer. Not just wal-mart but all kinds of stores have software to determine how well each item and each category of winter stuff sold in the spring, summer, and fall. Based on the normal weather pattern for the stores' location. And not just by season but by week. I would assume that by now, not only does the computer do the first draft of the orders, but that it prints notices in advance by the proper amount to clear out lawnmowers to make room for snowblowers, etc.
That's walmart's rule, probably designed so they can have a minimum of staff. A small hardware store also rotates its seasonal items, but they would probably go in the back to get it for you. You should shop as much as possible at the small store that charges 3 times as much so they'll be in business when you need them. I'll bet they don't charge that much on everythign.
No time here for a comparison with other stores' goals.
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