DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Dec 31, 12:34 pm, George wrote:
benick wrote:

"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message
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On 12/31/08 11:01 am George wrote:
I notice a great price difference between two HD's 20 miles apart in
different towns. The same goes for the availability of low priced
items which are absent in the higher priced store.
A recent experience I had is I needed to replace the circulator on my
wood boiler. Went to HD in local town, nothing under $100.00.
Went to next town to Loews, nothing under $100.00 there either. But
the HD in the same town as Loews had a model for $80.00 and another
for $65.00. It they were quality pump makers.
I think the local managers can do pretty much what they want at HD.
Or just go to the real place and pay $50. My neighbor's heating system
went down and he asked me about it. The circulator had failed. This guy
is a total believer that big box is his buddy just like the marketing
tells him so he immediately wants to drive 10 miles to hd. I asked him
to check how much his friends at hd will sell it to him and he called
and they wanted $70 for a Taco cartridge pump. We have a great mom & pop
place that is 1/3 of the distance away. I called them and they wanted
$49 for the same model.
It occurs to me that this *could* be because the mom and pop store has
had this thing sitting on the shelf for a while, purchased when prices
were lower. If HD sells more of them, the ones they have on the shelf
could have been bought at a higher price.
So HD isn't *necessarily* out to screw you. It may just be how things
happened at a particular time in a particular place.
I realize that there's a difference between groceries and
hardware/electrical/plumbing, but I've read that mom and pop grocery
stores often have to pay more for items than the local supermarket
chain is selling them for -- and they can't just buy their stock from
the supermarket instead of from the distributor because the
supermarket often limits the quantities an individual customer can
buy. (A long time ago, limiting quantities was illegal in South
Australia, but I don't know whether it is anywhere else -- or even
whether it still is in SA).
Perce
The Homedepots around here will MATCH any local competitior...I've done
it a couple of times...
So what would be the point of wasting my time doing that? I can get
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The reason you would do that is because, according to some posters, if
you go to the local store you're going to get sneered at, laughed at,
berated and trampled.

Or I guess we could laugh at the folks required to do what my friend
calls the "big box dance" running back and forth to match prices like
they are on some reality show.