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Leon[_7_]

On 1/16/2017 11:31 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:50:23 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

In article ,
says...

Jack writes:
On 1/13/2017 3:05 PM, wrote:

There is a REASON there is a difference between wholesale (warehouse)
and retail (store) pricing - and it has nothing to do with the
retailer going after your gonads.

The reason a retailer is going after my gonads is not important to me.
If an item cost 3-10 times as much at a retail store, I'm not likely
going to buy it, nor will their price gouging ways send a chill up my leg.

I hate buying machine screws at Borgs, they come in sealed package of 3
for .99. I need 4, and the price is stupid.

Most of their customers only need two screws, and are not interested
in storing 98 others ad infinitum. Can't make everyone happy
(although my local Orchard Supply Hardware will sell the two/four packs
and also will sell an entire box of 25/50/100).

Home Depot, Lowes aren't generally selling to the trade.

Hardware stores used to
sell them by the pound and they were cheap. Lowes sells threaded
inserts individually for 10x's more than I can buy them at Granger.

Why Sears, Lowes, Home Depot won't give a decent price on small items is
not important to me.

Again, your lack of retailing experience shows. It costs the retailer
money to stock small items (e.g. those bags of three screws) for packaging,
shipping, stocking, tracking.

I guess enough people don't mind getting screwed,
or even know they are getting screwed.

Life must really suck for you.

You don't seem to understand sales--you seem to
be one of those back room accountants who says
"we have to charge x for this item and never
mind that the guy across the street sells it for
x/10". And after a while you decide to remove
the item because you never sell any of them.
And so it goes until the guy across the street
has put you out of business.
You would rather he sell everything below cost, and drive HIMSELF out
of business? Either way the result is the same.

"I'm only loosing a little bit on each sale - I'll make it up on
volume"

Any retailer that has a fixed percentage of mark up on his entire
inventory is an idiot. Every item must be considered when it come to
mark up. You must consider turn over, cost of handling and floor space
used. If an item is not selling, you mark it down, and if you have to
mark it down too much you don't replace it, unless it is a relative
inexpensive item and is a loss leader.