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Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On 2015-02-23, Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>> Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>>> Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>>>> Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> They turned the games section which used to be part of the book section 
>>>>> into a mini Radio Shack.  Arduinos, Pis, Beagle boards, transistors, 
>>>>> soldering irons, all kinds of stuff for the kid who wants to be the next 
>>>>> Steve Wozniak (Jobs was only the marketing guy).
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah but at least they are trying, look where Radio Shack is today.
>>>> 
>>>> Keep in mind when MC opened (1997/98?), the computer market was totally
>>>> different from today. They need to keep changing shit to get people in the
>>>> door.
>>>
>>> Yeah, MC was known in my circles for having a really badass computer book 
>>> section when it opened. I still have piles of computer books at the desk, 
>>> mostly because removing them would make make the pile collapse.
>>>
>>>> I'm not a gamer but it's obvious from posts, news articles and feeds that
>>>> the game market is mostly "online" these days. I don't quite get what Steam
>>>> is, but it's obvious it's some pay to play system. That and all the console
>>>> machines that only work over the net. With all that going on, I can't see
>>>> where carrying them in a store works anymore.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe MC is trying to take a stab at Fry's, although I haven't been out to
>>>> the one in Downers Grove (or wherever the hell it is) in a while, last time
>>>> I was there they had a couple aisles dedicated to loose "parts". Seems like
>>>> a waste of floor space but who knows. 
>>>> 
>>>> And along the same lines, unless I hit my head pretty hard and didn't
>>>> realize it, I swear I saw a Menards commerical advertising mattresses. You
>>>> know, the ones you sleep on.
>>>> 
>>>> I know it's an uphill battle for them to compete with Home Depot and Lowes
>>>> but mattresses? 
>>>
>>> Menards is pretty batshit crazy with stuff like that. Hell, they did have 
>>> a mountain of canning wax in the middle of Feb. I'd get a mattress from 
>>> menards over one of those sketchy foreign places with the ratty mattress 
>>> in dirty plastic bags propped up on the sidewalk as some sort of "proof" 
>>> they really sell mattresses.
>>
>> there seems to be a sleepy's on every damned corner lately
>>
>>> The local Menards now sells tampons, vitamins and eye drops. I got the 
>>> eyedrops as they were cheaper than from walgreens. They also had bar soap, 
>>> but not ivory, so I was dissapointed.
>>>
>>> They're really got all bases covered. The only thing you need to leave 
>>> their store for to purchase are airline tickets, shows, wigs, bowling 
>>> balls and maybe spiral cut ham.
>>
>> which one is next?  my bets are bowling balls or spiral cut ham

>Menards buys closeouts and odd lots on the wholesale level. This is
>where much of their odd stuff comes from. However these days it's
>looking like a number of things they found they can sell well enough are
>becoming regularly stocked items at the bigger stores. 

Does your still sell green pvc ammo cans? Mine stopped and I do use them
and Harbor Freights are more gray which just doesn't match the old pile.

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