Surprised at TSC

Caryc

Well-known Member
I went into the TSC in Hemet today and bought some assorted sizes of three quarter inch bolts, nuts and lock washers.

The surprise was when I was at the checkout counter. I started to tell the girl what all I had and she said "it doesn't matter".

She just placed all of it on the scale and it was $2.49 per pound.

As a former inventory control person, I just had to wonder, how do they keep track of inventory that way? They don't know what exactly went out the door. It could have been "X" pounds of two inch bolts or six inch bolts.

Another strange thing was that on my receipt it listed 2.49 pounds at $2.49 per pound which came to $6.20.

What are the chances of the price per pound and the pounds of merchandise matching like that?
 
That's the way they do it at our midwest chain called Fleet Farm - by the pound.
One price for grade 2 one for grade 5 and one for grade 8.
Don't mix the grades in one bag or you'll have about 3 mother hens clucking over things as they sort them.
 
Rural King just opened up near me and they had a grand opening special on nuts and bolts 99 cents a pound for grade 2 plated up to 7/8'' I think I bought close to 25 lbs. Stocked the bolts bins up in the shop. Now there back to there regular price of $1.69 I still buy a few pounds when I'm in there. TSC here gets $1.99 per pound
 
Worked for bolt & nut companies all my life. First one we weighed product on a freight scale. You could mix nuts, flats, lock washers,bolts as long as they were all the same grade. When the bulk keg got low you just ordered up another. Then computers dictated keeping track of inventory and now the discounts kick in when you buy full box's rather than counting. Local John Deere dealer sells by the pound, kinda like it.
 
(quoted from post at 15:46:09 09/09/14) Worked for bolt & nut companies all my life. First one we weighed product on a freight scale. You could mix nuts, flats, lock washers,bolts as long as they were all the same grade. When the bulk keg got low you just ordered up another. Then computers dictated keeping track of inventory and now the discounts kick in when you buy full box's rather than counting. Local John Deere dealer sells by the pound, kinda like it.

But they still don't know what went out the door. I wonder how often they check and re stock the little bins in the store?
 
BMACK518N
I wrote the PO for fasteners for the company I work for to the local supplier the first of the year. At the time I wrote it for $750,000 I have upped it since then and we still have almost 4 months to go. We use a lot of high grade stainless steel nuts and bolts in our sulfuric and phosacid plants and it runs into a huge amount of money when you start buying A 20 and Hastalloy nuts and bolts up to 2'' in diameter. They sell them by the piece. I bought some awhile back for a sulfuric injection line and you could tell they were machined out of bar stock one at a time. But the alloy was the only thing that would hold up to the acid and the temperature. If you have to have the best you will pay the price!
 
Been buying it by the pound at TSC for a few years. Heck of a lot cheaper than per fastner. Especially the 5/8 to 1 inch sizes.

Each time I stop in I pick up about $10 worth of grade 8 hardware of various sizes and stock up the bolt bins in the shop.

Each time I work on an engine or tractor part or machine I have a bolt,washer, lock washer or nut that I need.
 
Besides the local TSC, our two other nearby agricultural stores do the same..., mix and weigh same grade of bolts, washers, and nuts. They must have big supplies in the back and keep the bins stocked, then order when they get down to a certain level. Kind of a rare common-sense thing in today's way of doing things. I hardly ever buy bolts and screws at Lowe's, they do keep inventory by packaging, and seem to have 3 in a pack when I need 4 anyway! (Probably planned that way by a marketing genius idiot.)
 
Does your TSC store have different colored plastic bags in rolls hanging in that area that you are supposed to put the different grades of bolts in?

A couple of months back, at the TSC I shop at, I read, and tried to follow the instructions, and put some Grade 8 hardware in what I thought was the appropriate colored bag, and went to check out.

The gal at the till rang them up as cheap stuff and didn't want to hear any of my questions as to why they didn't ring up as the more expensive Grade 8.

Oh, well, I TRIED to be honest!
 
best deal there.
When you make a lot of stuff, buying bolt by bolt is crazy expensive
I buy a big bag assortment every time I'm there.
I'm going to start buying more, because it is very popular here.
Washer bins are emptied quickly, nuts too.

Now if I can just talk them into selling those handy drill-screws by the pound, I'll be all set.

Same color bag for all here Bob.
different grades are different colors(silver, green, and gold)
 
Here bolts are different colors. grade 2 are
silver. Grade five are tan. Grade 8 is blue.

They just weigh your bag and check and make
sure they are all the same color. Then get the
price off the sheet on the counter.

As far as restocking. I think they just look to
see which bins are empty or near empty and
reorder. The bolts come in big boxes several
pounds in each.
 
We're using titanium shafts in our filter pumps in the HCL baths and while they last LOTS longer than the stainless steel shafts they still take a beating.
 
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Seems to me that in the local TSC there is a sign in the hardware aisle stateing that hardware in the blue bins is sold by the pound.







quote="Bob"](reply to post at 17:06:26 09/09/14) [/quote]
 
(quoted from post at 09:40:21 09/11/14) [

Seems to me that in the local TSC there is a sign in the hardware aisle stateing that hardware in the blue bins is sold by the pound.
quote="Bob"](reply to post at 17:06:26 09/09/14)
/quote]

I didn't see any prices on anything which I thought was kind of strange.

But I don't remember seeing any sign saying anything was sold by the pound or any sign with the price per pound.

I'll have to stop in again next time I go to town and check it out.
 
(quoted from post at 13:54:09 09/11/14)
(quoted from post at 09:40:21 09/11/14) [

Seems to me that in the local TSC there is a sign in the hardware aisle stateing that hardware in the blue bins is sold by the pound.
quote="Bob"](reply to post at 17:06:26 09/09/14)
/quote]

I didn't see any prices on anything which I thought was kind of strange.

But I don't remember seeing any sign saying anything was sold by the pound or any sign with the price per pound.

I'll have to stop in again next time I go to town and check it out.

Unless they are different from every other TSC I have ever been in the bulk nuts and bolts are sold by the pound. They have different color plastic bags for the different grades and you are not supposed to mix them together. The price per pound is posted next to the colored bags. At my store the clerks are smart enough to know the yellow zinc grade 8 from the olive clad grade 5 and the silver zinc plated grade 2 fasteners regardless of what color bag you put them in.

TOH
 
(quoted from post at 11:11:50 09/11/14)
(quoted from post at 13:54:09 09/11/14)
(quoted from post at 09:40:21 09/11/14) [

Seems to me that in the local TSC there is a sign in the hardware aisle stateing that hardware in the blue bins is sold by the pound.
quote="Bob"](reply to post at 17:06:26 09/09/14)
/quote]

I didn't see any prices on anything which I thought was kind of strange.

But I don't remember seeing any sign saying anything was sold by the pound or any sign with the price per pound.

I'll have to stop in again next time I go to town and check it out.

Unless they are different from every other TSC I have ever been in the bulk nuts and bolts are sold by the pound. They have different color plastic bags for the different grades and you are not supposed to mix them together. The price per pound is posted next to the colored bags. At my store the clerks are smart enough to know the yellow zinc grade 8 from the olive clad grade 5 and the silver zinc plated grade 2 fasteners regardless of what color bag you put them in.

TOH

Well, I guess I just didn't pay that much attention. In my 67 years, I have never purchased hardware by the pound.

Well, I take that back, the only thing I've ever seen sold by the pound was nails.

So purchasing large (3/4") bolts and nuts by the pound was a completely foreign thought to me.
 

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