The end of shopping for CZ
Yesterday afternoon I needed to get some hardware parts. Specifically a pair of bearings and a simple chain master link. Stuff that every hardware store would carry.
Home Depot: "What is a bearing? Chain? We have chain link fence"
Lowes: "I know what a bearing is, we don't have that. Same for chain links"
Fucking Pep Boys: "We only stock what the computer says, we can't find anything without a part number.
All of the people working at the stores were plain stupid. Except for Lowes. But the thing that bothered me was the basic level of incompetence in HD and Pep Boys. The stores were a mess, they carried nothing but junk, and I realized I wasted almost 2 hours driving around and talking to what essentially were morons.
So at Home Depot I made a pledge to the foreigners who could not speak english: I would never shop for anything in a store again. More to the point if it's not a total commodity (food, propane, etc) I will order the damn thing online. Never again will I drive to a store, because they don't carry products in stores. They have no reason to exist anymore, because in the drive for "efficiency" the store can't have anything in stock.
And I just remembered that on Thursday I went to Gamestop in Arundel Mills for a 3DS for Bri. They had black and blue, no red. No red anywhere around. I could drive to a store 30 minutes away or I could "ship to store". I took the black one, but I realized I should have just bought it online and had the right color shipped directly to my house with no driving, no 30 minutes of my life wasted, and no dealing with a person who just wasn't allowed to stock anything anymore.
Filters from Sears? Same thing. Tools? Yep, sold out of everything but crap. Parts? Why; get them from online stores. So I'm done with shopping in stores, it was a good run, but it looks like we've reverted back to the 19th century of catalog shopping.
Oddly enough Sears should clean up with this; they pioneered catalog shopping. No more going to stores for Solstice shopping, I'll do it all online and home from catalogs.
Because the only people working in stores seem to be hopeless. So much for that.
C
(My I am in a ranty mood this weekend)
Home Depot: "What is a bearing? Chain? We have chain link fence"
Lowes: "I know what a bearing is, we don't have that. Same for chain links"
Fucking Pep Boys: "We only stock what the computer says, we can't find anything without a part number.
All of the people working at the stores were plain stupid. Except for Lowes. But the thing that bothered me was the basic level of incompetence in HD and Pep Boys. The stores were a mess, they carried nothing but junk, and I realized I wasted almost 2 hours driving around and talking to what essentially were morons.
So at Home Depot I made a pledge to the foreigners who could not speak english: I would never shop for anything in a store again. More to the point if it's not a total commodity (food, propane, etc) I will order the damn thing online. Never again will I drive to a store, because they don't carry products in stores. They have no reason to exist anymore, because in the drive for "efficiency" the store can't have anything in stock.
And I just remembered that on Thursday I went to Gamestop in Arundel Mills for a 3DS for Bri. They had black and blue, no red. No red anywhere around. I could drive to a store 30 minutes away or I could "ship to store". I took the black one, but I realized I should have just bought it online and had the right color shipped directly to my house with no driving, no 30 minutes of my life wasted, and no dealing with a person who just wasn't allowed to stock anything anymore.
Filters from Sears? Same thing. Tools? Yep, sold out of everything but crap. Parts? Why; get them from online stores. So I'm done with shopping in stores, it was a good run, but it looks like we've reverted back to the 19th century of catalog shopping.
Oddly enough Sears should clean up with this; they pioneered catalog shopping. No more going to stores for Solstice shopping, I'll do it all online and home from catalogs.
Because the only people working in stores seem to be hopeless. So much for that.
C
(My I am in a ranty mood this weekend)