The small chain I worked for started in 1938. They shut down a bunch of
stores about 5 years ago and sold the rest. The new owners sold off
others but still retain a few which they renamed. They did keep I
believe 3-4 stores with the original name, I guess to keep the 1938
claim. Anyway, yes it was great because we could control what we stocked.
On 1/3/2022 8:58 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
I LOVE independent grocery stores because they'll have stuff you can't
get anywhere else. In Caribou we've got "Sleepers" which is,
unsurprisingly, owned by the Sleeper family since 1914. Ikey went to
school with my great aunt Trudy. He's in his '90s now and is in the
store at least one day a week in the summer.
Last summer they had "Looza" brand apricot, pear and mango juices from
Belgium. Go check out how much Amazon will screw you for a bottle.
IIRC they were like $4 at Sleepers.
Where else can you find a freezer section with a whole cod, rabbit or
20# bag of chicken livers?
-Curt
On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:48:49 PM EST, Kaleb Striplin via
Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
This is sure bringing back memories. We used to have what we called
the grocery book. It was basically a stack of those continuous white
and green dot matrix sheets which listed every product our wholesaler
had available. It was something like 4" thick and we could look thru it
to find products to order if looking for new items. Sometimes customers
would come in and request certain things and if we had room we could
order it and see how it sold. It something did not sell we would mark
it down to get rid of it and find something else to put in its place.
Now days I am sure all that stuff is all on computer. The only
computers we had at the store back then was a 286 which was used for
inventory pricing which uploaded price changes to the master register.
On 1/3/2022 8:39 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote:
> Wally World is the king of this. Their inventory is extremely
selective and solely based on what does (or doesn't) sell at a given
location. I have three "Supercenters" within about 8 miles of my
house. I can only get M1 0W-40 at one of them - the other two never
have it. I've seen similar examples for foodstuffs in their grocery, too.
>
> It's amazing how granular they are when it comes to inventory.
>
> -D
> ________________________________
> From: Mercedes <mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com> on behalf of Kaleb
Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM
> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Cc: Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net>
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries
>
> That sounds about right.
>
> Back in my days of working at and managing grocery stores, we were a
> smaller 17 store family owned chain and we ordered our own product a
> couple of times a week from the warehouse. In fact, we had our own
> central warehouse where they would buy products by the truck load or
> train load, to stock the warehouse, which was then sent to the stores as
> ordered. Our regular items came from a grocery wholesaler. The stuff
> from our warehouse was deeply discounted because they bought it in
> bulk. Years later after the old man who owned it died, and kids ran it,
> they went away from that and strictly ordered from the wholesaler same
> as every other store. After that they were no longer really competitive
> and since have been sold off.
>
> Anyway, sorry for the side track but it seemed a lot of other stores,
> especially big corporate stores, they do not order anything, they just
> get whatever corporate sends them. Seems like a very stupid model to do
> business.
>
> On 1/3/2022 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
>> Yup. My cousin worked for years and years at Wal-Mart. He worked
his way up to be manager of the sporting goods department. Every year
corporate would send them a whole bunch of salt water fishing gear.
Maine is on the coast right? But here's a surprise for corporate, not
all of Maine is on the coast and people who live inland don't do much
salt water fishing. So cousin Tim gets stuck with all this crap he
can't sell and get dinged for carrying stock that doesn't move which
affects his bonus.
>> Finally through a series of moves I don't remember he manages to
"lose" the stuff that doesn't sell. I can't remember if he shipped it
to some other store or what went on but he got it off his books
somehow. All of a sudden he goes from being one of the worst
performing departments in the store to one of the best. Big bonus.
Next year they ship him all the stuff he can't sell again...
>> -Curt
>>
>> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:18:00 PM EST, Allan Streib via
Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is where the big box corporate retailers can't get around
the overlords that are dictating how the stores are to be operated.
>>
>> A local parts store or hardware store owner would just shrug, ring
up $80.00 or whatever, and let you take it home.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 9:13 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote:
>>> They send those items “back” and from there who knows where they go.
>>> Liquidators I guess. It would be much simpler to sell them to a
>>> customer for some amount rather than going through all that for a few
>>> pennies
>>>
>>> --FT
>>> Sent from iFōn
>>>
>>>> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You'd think they take an inventory once a month or so. I wonder
how they handle items that do not "scan" then?
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
>>>>> I had heard that home despot sold batteries. I had one die and was
>>>>> going to be close to HD so I checked it out. They had a H8 on
the shelf
>>>>> for $129. Went to ring it up and it wouldn’t. They were very
confused
>>>>> and called manager. Battery is very dusty and sticker says April
21 on
>>>>> it. So it’s been sitting there a while. Tag on shelf says it’s 3
year
>>>>> but battery is labeled 2 year. This confused them further. Manager
>>>>> shows up and says if it doesn’t scan they can’t sell it. Also
they have
>>>>> not seen tbr “battery guy” since middle of last year. Just wasted 30
>>>>> minutes of my life.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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