On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:26:46 -0500, Leon wrote:

FrozenNorth wrote:
On 4/24/2013 11:08 PM, Gramp's shop wrote:
A business trip took me to Winnipeg this week and I had a couple of
hours to kill before my flight home this afternoon. Lee Valley is a
short hop from the airport and I decided to pay a visit as I've never
been in one of their stores. The service was exceptional, the staff was
knowledgeable and I left with two of those great bench dogs, a 3"
engineers square, a shop apron and a full suite of current catalogs.
Had a productive conversation with one of the guys on vise options for
the new bench I'm going to build. Finally, came in $10 under budget --
the budget set by the amount I got for peddling a router and table on CL
last week. You guys north of the border got it good!

I just hate having one 10 minutes away from home. :-)

I used to have a Woodcraft store that was that close until we moved..
What is even worse than having a WW store close is when "everyone" that
works there knows your name, even when you don't know their names. :-)

One of the guys in the Rockler store knew my name when we were living
in Alabamastan, 120 miles from the store. I only live 50mi. from the
Rockler and Woodcraft (and Peachtree and Highland) stores now. ;-)