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1. Re: Graingers Vs. HD (score: 1)
Author: Michael Lye <mlye@risd.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 08:34:15 -0400 (EDT)
One other point to be aware of with Home Depot is their relationship with the manufacturers. HD exerts a tremendous amount of pressure on the companies they buy from to sell at the lowest possible pr
/html/shop-talk/1998-08/msg00000.html (8,200 bytes)

2. Re: Graingers Vs. HD (score: 1)
Author: Roger Gibbs <rgibbs@pacbell.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 10:14:21 +0000
.....good stuff deleted ... Doug (& list), No need to apologize, it looks like our philosophies are very similiar. About 15 years ago I decided that I would buy only quality tools (for the most part)
/html/shop-talk/1998-08/msg00001.html (8,610 bytes)

3. Re: Graingers Vs. HD (score: 1)
Author: Douglas Shook <dshook@usc.edu>
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 13:38:37 -0700
- very big snip - Gosh, sorry Roger, I got so wound up on that one that the focus of the post glossed over the main issue almost entirely. What I was thinking, and should have been saying, was that i
/html/shop-talk/1998-08/msg00002.html (9,825 bytes)

4. Re: Graingers Vs. HD (score: 1)
Author: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 15:35:38 -0500
Douglas abley presented the case for the purchase of quality rather than price when investing in a tool to keep and use forever. In my mail today, was a flyer from MSC which listed as a specially dis
/html/shop-talk/1998-08/msg00003.html (7,275 bytes)

5. RE: Graingers Vs. HD (score: 1)
Author: kengano@advant.com (Gano, Ken)
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:40:13 -0500
The sad part of all of this is what I call "The Wal Mart" mentality. Most small towns in downstate Illinois that clamoured for a Wal Mart (and gave huge tax incentives) immediately lost numerous smal
/html/shop-talk/1998-08/msg00004.html (8,267 bytes)

6. RE: Graingers Vs. HD (score: 1)
Author: Keith Kaplan <keithka@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 13:53:09 -0700
Same goes for some other mega-retailers that buy in similar quantities. WalMart and (Price) Costco come to mind. In Costco's case, it's usually the same quality as the regular product, but maybe with
/html/shop-talk/1998-08/msg00018.html (7,881 bytes)

7. Graingers Vs. HD (score: 1)
Author: Douglas Shook <dshook@usc.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 21:50:28 -0700
Question: what is the benefit of a Graingers (presumably heavy duty) shop fan over a lower cost Home Depot type of attic exhaust fan or whole house fan ? TIA -Roger Hi Roger and list, This question d
/html/shop-talk/1998-07/msg00173.html (8,701 bytes)


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