Home Centers Are Designed For The Do-it-yourselfer Who's Willing To Pay Higher Prices For The Convenience Of Being Able To Shop For Lumber, Hardware, And Toasters All In One Location.

Home Centers Are Designed For The Do-it-yourselfer Who's Willing To Pay Higher Prices For The Convenience Of Being Able To Shop For Lumber, Hardware, And Toasters All In One Location.

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Home centers are designed for the do-it-yourselfer who's
willing to pay higher prices for the convenience of being able to shop
for lumber, hardware, and toasters all in one location. Notice I say
"shop for", as opposed to "obtain". This is the major drawback of home
centers: they are always out of everything except artificial Christmas
trees. The home center employees have no time to reorder merchandise
because they are too busy applying little price stickers to every
object -- every board, washer, nail and screw -- in the entire store ...
Let's say a piece in your toilet tank breaks, so you remove the
broken part, take it to the home center, and ask an employee if he has
a replacement. The employee, who has never is his life even seen the
inside of a toilet tank, will peer at the broken part in very much the
same way that a member of a primitive Amazon jungle tribe would look at
an electronic calculator, and then say, "We're expecting a shipment of
these sometime around the middle of next week".
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"

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Home centers are designed for the do-it-yourselfer who's willing to pay higher prices for the convenience of being able to shop for lumber, hardware, and toasters all in one location.
Notice I say shop for, as opposed to obtain. This is the major drawback of home cente...
Home centers are designed for the do-it-yourselfer who's willing to pay higher prices for the convenience of being able to shop for lumber, hardware, and toasters all in one location.
Notice I say "shop for", as opposed to "obtain". This is the major drawback of home cente...
Several years ago, some smart businessmen had an idea
Why not build a big store where a do-it-yourselfer could get everything he needed at reasonable prices?...
Several years ago, some smart businessmen had an idea
Why not build a big store where a do-it-yourselfer could get everything he needed at reasonable prices?...
Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities, requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a clogged toilet.
In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by turning up the radio....
Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities, requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a clogged toilet.
In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by turning up the radio....
Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...