I did that with my welder and still feel guilty. I think I had a $50 discount card or something but they still had the sale tags on the welders from the week before, so I got both. The manager had to ok it. Not my fault I guess they don’t pull the old tags, still I know it wasn’t right. I think I got $80 off instead of $40. I guess I was a male Karen but I didn’t make a fuss, just asked. It was a $500 welder though but don’t tell my wife.
Wow, i can still remember going to A&S in downtown Brooklyn with my mother. We’d take the Brighton Line and have lunch at Junior’s.
In 1976 I had an addition put on my home and was looking for a dining room tablem hutch and chairs. I found a set by Richardson brothers that I liked at a local furniture store for $2000.
I went to a firnoture dea;er I used to de;iver for and he did npt carry that line and hhad never heard of it, but said he would order it for me at his cost. It was $710.
Pretty good ex-sort-of-employee discount. I worked for an independant trucker who delivered his furniture.
A lot of markup on furniture. Back in the 50s and 60sm furniture stores would sell appliances for very little above cost just to get you in the door.
Off topic, but I was sad to see Dayton’s go. Found the history interesting that Dayton’s bargain basement became the inspiration for Target.
Yeah that’s where you got tickets for concerts and teen events, and a good clothes department. Always had a daytons card.
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The auto part stores near me have very limited supply of tools, and I’ve never ever seen Cabinets. Best place for tools and cabinets is Lowes or Home Depot.
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Nothing against snap on and metal cabinets but for a home owner, I made wood cabinets. I made them to fit what I store with roll out shelves on most of it. Seven foot high and three foot wide modules across the back of my garage. I have a spot for one metal tool cabinet. I don’t know what it cost but not as much as pro cabinets. Now if you are a pro and need to roll them to a new work place, won’t work.
I think working at a parts or tool store could be quite valuable training for someone seeking a scientific or engineering related college degree. For one thing, you’d discover folks coming into the store have a lot of misconceptions about how scientific gadgets work. And that folks get confused about things seemingly impossible to be confused about, were a little common sense applied. For example, that a 1/4 inch ID tube looks much different than a 7/8" ID tube. In other words, just b/c a tube came from a bin in the store that said “1/4 inch ID”, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is actually that size.
Those must be extremely heavy.
Built in, fastened to the wall. Not movable.
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Heh heh, I don’t know how to do pictures.