Re: WHATS going on in rural USA

Posted by dan hill on June 20, 2007 at 06:19:22 from (152.163.100.14):

In Reply to: Re: WHATS going on in rural USA posted by trucker 40 on June 19, 2007 at 20:56:16:

Many small stores have shot themselves.I buy oil dry for 4.00 a bag.My wife asked the counterman in an auto parts store if they had Oil dry,7.50 a bag.Friend likes to check out new stores that open.Saw oil dry at 10.99 a bag at a store we went to.Grain prices are crazy, layer pellets are 8.50 to 10.90 for 50 lb.Same brand.Grocery prices are increasing fast.We have a General store across the highway from us.It has been closed twice.Last owner lost it to the bank.Most small towns around here have lost their general stores.The owner of the Monroe store said he couldnt take in enough many days to pay the help.He closed it.40 years ago we had Massey Ferguson dealer, John Deere,Ford and IHC close by.Small stores are closing all over this area.Small lumber yards are gone.I build picnic tables.There is a good sized lumber yard about 17 miles from me.I bought lumber for 3 tables, told the fellows that loaded it lumber had to look good because it was for tables.I had 5 2x6 x8 that were worthless for a table top in the load.Had to drive 30 miles to a Home Depot where I could hand pick the lumber.Bought enough for 4 tables plus 5 replacments for the junk the smaller yard gave me.Stopped in a large general store that has a big sporting goods dept.Got there about 10 minutes before opening time.Lights were on and clerks were inside.Door was locked.People were out side waiting for gas, a woman wanted some canning jars.A pick up was backed up to the grain door.Door opens 5 minutes late.I looked at some jitterbug fishing lures.They were priced at 8.50 each and were made in china.They had a strange looking paint job and did not look like the old product.I left and bought my gas elsewhere.Walmart still sells them for 5.00.Walmart sells imitation crab meat for 1.88 a pound.Another small store calls it Crab Supreme at 4.49 a pound.I was at walmart to get a dollar can of spray paint to mark some new patterns I made.I noticed a 12 pack of beer I buy for 5.57 I put a pak in my cart.I stopped at a small grocery where it sells for 5.99, it was now 6.99.Where would you buy the beer.As long as small stores act like they have no competition they will go down.My friend asked a store keeper why he no longer stocked the dollar a loaf bread.Store keeper said it didnt sell,Ill bet it killed the sale of the 2.89 bread he sold.A nother gripe is the stores that have a sign on the door No Public Rest Rooms.When you have bounced along frost heaved roads in a 4wd for 30 miles you gotta go.My wife stopped for some veg seeds at a small hardware store on her way to work.Clerk was inside, lights on , made her wait 10 minutes.She wont stop there again.I got to an auto parts store a bit early, Clerk was just going in, said I couldnt come in til 8 am.I left and spent 90.00 at another store.Same thing happened at a shop where I buy small engine parts and trailer parts.I dont buy from them,just send the order to a mail order co that ships fast and pays shipping on a 100.00 order.My shop never has had any set hours.People often leave fence chargers off on their way to work early am.I sold 2 picnic tables to a woman at 7 pm.She called earlier and said her son would be back at 7 with his truck.I guess I could have told here I was closed...

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