True, but they do have a few things actually made in the USA. I bought SWMBO a knife sharpener that fits this bill today. I was surprised.
Of course...
...this may be a US brand, but it ain't an American product.
MANUFACTURED IN MEXICO BY S.C. JOHNSON & SON S.A. de C.V.
They are experts. Bastards. I went for batteries and a pepper mill. I left with batteries, a pedometer, a pepper mill, a knife, and a knife sharpener. Bastards. I know how the game is played from the other side, but it still works.
Junky old fashioned hardware stores with boxes upon boxes of things scattered around in random disarray are easier to shop at. You ask the guy where the left threaded blurfls are, and he shows you. You don't walk out with a blurfl sharpener, a right handed blurfl and three pounds of blurfl polish.
Which is why junky old fashioned hardware stores are getting outcompeted by the BORGs.
Briwax is used on floors as well but according to a distributor in the US it is even more slippery than Johnson's so they don't recommend it.
Ha! You are right. It says it is a wax. It says "for floors wait 20-30 minutes before buffing...", it says "Member - National Wood Flooring Association", it says "For additional information about floor care, call...", but it does not say "I am a floor wax" LOL
yep.. your ears and nose.. mental floss
it might be from all that leaning into the grinding wheel.. maybe you need a spacer like I have.. my stomach has become a curb finder.. lol
another dying breed... hardware stores.. I try really hard to buy from our local hardware store.. he's independent, no franchise, etc..
I try to get myself to pay extra for things there, because I'm getting personal service and knowledgeable help... In reality, I get both of those things from orchard Hardware... so the real reason I go to the hardware store? The bottom line is that I'm self employed and I feel his pain.. I try to throw a little business his way BECAUSE he's a dying breed and I hope to slow the process a bit..
bidding on your dutch auction on Ebay??
Yeah. "We saved 247 jobs by buying the Super Blurfl from Bitsyco Enterprises in Bumfuktu, OK." Where are those posters now?
A lot of the produce comes out of Latin America. Most of the house brand food comes out of Canada. Must be NAFTA.
Very true. My grandparents bought a little asbestos shingled two bedroom place for $3,000 after WWII. About 800 sq. ft. sounds right. That place is *cramped*. Raised two kids there.
Larry Jaques responds:
Read what I wrote. IIRC, you thought it was higher. I said it was unlikely to be because the media company didn't much like Walmart. It might be lower. Probably isn't.
They are not MY figures Larry.
Where the HELL do you find the average Walmart associate making almost ten bucks an hour? More like six around here.
Maybe. I'd be curious to see percentages here, too.
Charlie Self "Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." Eric Hoffer
On Sat 18 Dec 2004 04:23:22a, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnotforme (Charlie Self) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m23.aol.com:
I think they're using the total wages for the company divided by the number of employees, including management. If your company has 10 people making five bucks and hour and one person making 40, then the average wage for the company is 8.18.
Yeah, me too. That's why I buy overpriced lumber there.
It would help make it easier to buy more usual hardware/tool/general purpose items if he weren't on the far side of a bout 15,000 (more like 15) stoplights, whereas Lowe's is only two stoplights away.
A curb finder. Now there's an image. :)
Pro'ly so's they don't get sued, I 'magine.
On 18 Dec 2004 10:23:22 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnotforme (Charlie Self) calmly ranted:
Sorry, how about "the figure you quoted"?
Right there on the link I (thoughtfully) provided (so I wouldn't have to answer that question.) BTW, I thought that ws high, too, but they include everyone from the CEO on down as an "associate." Talk about skewing the stats...
Here it comes again:
They're hard to find, aren't they? Maybe Walmart will have an answer for me. I'll email a query to 'em today then check out their answers online.
I think maybe this particular topic is too close to the heart, like the gun control arguments. Despite finding the facts, the controllers won't disseminate their findings when they find out it goes against their beliefs. Y'know, a "Don't confuse my perfectly good fantasy with facts." kind of thing. Idealism has its costs.
So, folks, who has the _real_ uptime lowdown on these Wally World guys?
Calling All Wreckers: Cites, please.
-- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT?
---------------------------------------------
Probably not. Do you know anyone who works at Wally World? People especially of the feminine persuasion got a huge raise this year. On the order of $2.50 an hour in some cases. I think they're starting at $7 or $8 for new hires now.
Apparently they didn't like all the bad press about being the world's largest employer and paying the lowest wages with the worst benefits package of all major American companies, or the hints of a class action lawsuit on behalf of all the people of the feminine persuasion who weren't getting the extra penis premium on their checks.
They hired some independent research firm to send people into the stores and work all the jobs from the ground up to the home office, then report on what the job entailed, and what it was worth, adjusted broadly by locality. Then they scaled up wages based on the difference between what people were actually making, and what the results of this study determined they should be making, and gave people the difference in one big hunk of a raise.
I'm just as shocked as you that they actually did something about it, but they did. I certainly can't complain. Wal-Mart replaced my 20 year old car at long last. They finally put SWMBO into a job she likes, after 13 years of getting jerked around, and that makes her less bitchy and more content, so it's win-win all around, really. From the perspective of working there anyway, which says nothing about the broader sociopoliticoeconomic issues in play.
My bald spot is just a solar panel for a sex machine.
Great tune!
I've lost track of who it was with the stash of 12 cans.
I just thought he'd find it funny that I moved some stuff off a shelf today, and found three cans I had forgotten about. I stocked up too. :)
Time to rotate. I'll move my old finish can to machine duty, and use the new one for finishing.
Found a few tiny hints of rust on my TS table today, even though I just waxed it a few days ago. Not good. Boo hiss. Waxed the hell out of it again. I can't see my face in it, but if I get at just the right angle, I can see reflections of everything that's behind it with perfect clarity. I hope to keep it that way. Shiny good. Rusty bad. Rusty saw table makes Silvan a saaaaaaaaaad Silvan.
HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.