I went there once when I was in high school. They had quite the selection of hot sauce. They had quite the selection of a lot of things- that place is huge.
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I just did a quick scan.
Who did we decide was the biggest super genius of the thread?
Who did we decide was the biggest super genius of the thread?
There's price, and there's value, and the two are not the same. This is a surprise to a lot of people, and something that seems difficult for them to comprehend.
I'm waiting to see who wins the debate about binary arithmetic.
The Wrangler Jeans i wear, only company that makes them to fit me, are Walmart bought at $17/pair. Haven't purchased any since 2018 with little sign of wear and they are regularly exposed to a working environment of gasoline, toluene, and methyl ethyl ketone.
We worked with TCC (Triclocarbon... a derivation of Triclosan). That stuff would melt tyvek suits? Combine that with the raw talc, and you’ve basically got the equivalent of sandpaper scouring your clothes. Glad I always wore a respirator when working around that stuff, as a dozen of my former coworkers have cancer now.
No kidding, I lost all of my teeth to an industrial chemical explosion several years ago. Now lo and behold that company has chemsuits.
We had a plant maintenance manager; not once, not twice, but three times, cause an explosion in our no static methanol tank room by bringing his radio in there.
I'd be more than happy to support local shops, as soon as they are willing to at least come close to competing price wise with SP.
I dont expect them to keep that kind of selection, but after exchange and shipping, a tin of GL Pease (just using as a reference) is just shy of 20$CDN to my door, less if on sale. Local shops are between 50 and 60$, if they have it. I cant justify spending triple to support a B&M. They aren't even trying to compete.
I dont expect them to keep that kind of selection, but after exchange and shipping, a tin of GL Pease (just using as a reference) is just shy of 20$CDN to my door, less if on sale. Local shops are between 50 and 60$, if they have it. I cant justify spending triple to support a B&M. They aren't even trying to compete.
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I support all local businesses, be it B&M, smoke shops or tobacco wholesalers like JR Cigars in Burlington, if they have what I need when I need it, they made a sale and we're both happy. I only go online when I need to stock up on pipe filters and pipe cleaners, usually two or three times a year. Fortunately, my local smoke shops keep me well supplied with a good selection of cobs and tobacco. Life is good!
This… is simplistic on so many. My shoes can last decades - pricey, but very well made, they only simple upkeep.
While I don't know the intricacies in your particular situation, most of the time it's not the B&M just jacking prices for the sake of profits. It's the taxes you have to pay, that you are not paying for that online order shipment, being enforced on the local purchase. You mention exchange and shipping, but not a duty/excise tax. Did you not pay that on the mail order?
Not sure this has anything to do with the discussion but it popped into my head after reading your comment.
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The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.” From one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books.
I just realized that what I typed and what was written were two different things. My phone really works against me.
To answer your question, no, I don't use trees. However, all of my boots are in shoe bags that keep them dust free and help to control the dryness where I live. I have snake skin boots that are well over 30 years old and going strong with a nice patina to boot, so to say. I keep them conditioned and that helps.
I have shoes that I bought at Sears and other places and they last for maybe a season before they ugly out.
The same with clothes . I have jackets that have weathered high speed motorcycle crashes. They look like I bought them yesterday with neary a scratch.
Cheap is cheap. My 1963 Dunhill looks like it just came off the line while some of the cheap pipes I have ugly out rather quickly. Buy less, focus on quality and you will be ahead.
I want to support the B&M as much as I can but its expensive.
It pays to be cheap and buy quantity when it's on sale.
I'm with you on the shoes...but pipe tobacco is a disposable item
It pays to be cheap and buy quantity when it's on sale.If one day, all online shops start collecting each state excise tax in addition to the state tax they started collecting and it evens the playing field for the B&M, I'm interested to see how many people drop out and how many people pay up.
I agree with you. I have socks too which are over 5 years old. They are nice socks.