Trivia: Army/Air Force commissaries (grocery stores) havd "bag boys" that bagged your groceries, took them to your car, and loaded them in your trunk. At least they did in my day. These jobs were highly competitive but unpaid; they worked for tips only. I had a Master Sergeant who worked as a "bag boy" off duty. Some of the guys claimed he made more in tips than his military pay. That may not be true but he was very committed to about his off-duty job.
-----Original Message----- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes I think the smaller family owned grocery store chains are becoming a thing of the past. Aside from the one I worked for, there were several other local ones that have been gone for years. The last one we had here started in the 60's but they had fancy stores and their prices were higher, but still locally owned. The chain I worked for was no thrills basic stores for back in the day. No bakery deli, stuff like that. We actually had sackers that bagged your groceries and took them out to the car (my first job when I was 16 years old). Anyway, this last locally owned chain just sold out to some big chain out of Texas. Keeping the same name but I am sure it will not be the same anymore. On 1/3/2022 9:19 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > I just read a short Indianapolis Business Journal story on them. I knew that > Marsh had bought them out, but from what they said in the article Marsh > pretty much abandoned the remaining stores and let them die a slow death. The > one we shopped at when I was a kid on the Southside was one of the last, and > they said it closed in 2016. Too bad, that was a great place. > > -D > ________________________________ > From: Mercedes <mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com> on behalf of Allan > Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:14 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Allan Streib <astr...@fastmail.fm> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries > > Yep, we had an O'Malias in Bloomington. My mom loved to shop there. It closed > years ago. There were a couple of butchers in the meat department who had > been in that line of work for years. They started their own independent meat > shop, and it's still doing well. > > Allan > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, at 10:10 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> Agreed. A coworker founds some sort of DIY Korean stuff we had tried >> at a local restaurant at his Wally World, which is in a very >> different demographic area than where I live. I looked for it at my >> WW and of course, nothing like it. Not even close. >> >> When I was growing up in Indianapolis we had "O'Malia's" grocery >> stores. I think there were only 2-3 of them, family-owned place where >> most of the employees were either family or related in some fashion. >> Great service, selection, and would pretty much order anything you >> wanted if they didn't have it on the shelf. >> >> Old man O'Malia got busted screwing the IRS by not reporting the >> income from the vending machines they had in front of the store. At >> least that was the story, as I recall. I have to believe if he was >> shorting the IRS it wasn't just for the money in the Coke machines. >> Regardless, the Marsh chain bought them out and eventually ran them >> into the ground. I think the last of the 8 stores around town closed in 2016. >> >> -D >> ________________________________ >> From: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> >> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:53 PM >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Cc: dan penoff.com <d...@penoff.com> >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Home Despot batteries >> >> Wally screws themselves with that too, it becomes a self-fullfilling >> prophecy. The 2 stores never sell any 0w40 because they don't have >> any to sell... >> >> My biggest complaint at Wally is that you don't really have any >> choice for most things. For a given category of product they usually >> have 3 choices, the expensive one, the mid priced one and the cheap >> one. They don't have anything that's interesting or novel because it >> might not sell. >> >> -Curt >> >> On Monday, January 3, 2022, 09:40:09 PM EST, dan penoff.com via >> Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> 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<mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com>> >> on behalf of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> >> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 9:35 PM >> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> >> Cc: Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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. 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