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Walmart is where the trade war comes home

KevinKohler said:
Walmart does used much more sophisticated tools. Mom and pops are just beginning to use DCP, or in some cases, paper inventories, still. Walmart and Target are using SAP or newer. Symbol guns. Tablets/zebra devices, etc. Doesn't make them more reactive. Their size prevents that. It takes them a week just to roll out a sign change download for price changes on just one category. That same thing takes a mom and pop less than an hour.
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I got a mom and pop store near me where they still use msdos for the computers, and paper inventories. The shop I work at goes there a lot, to support local business and because it is right down the road. The main guy running it is so old he has to use a shopping cart to walk around the store because he refuses a walker, and in the last few years the store is half empty on merchandise.


It has not stoped me from using his hardware store, lowes and home depot took most his business, but what keeps him going is people who refuse to let the old stores die, we go there knowing a 3 inch threaded pipe might be 40 cents more than lowes, but sometimes you got to keep the local economy going.
 
beerftw said:
I got a mom and pop store near me where they still use msdos for the computers, and paper inventories. The shop I work at goes there a lot, to support local business and because it is right down the road. The main guy running it is so old he has to use a shopping cart to walk around the store because he refuses a walker, and in the last few years the store is half empty on merchandise.


It has not stoped me from using his hardware store, lowes and home depot took most his business, but what keeps him going is people who refuse to let the old stores die, we go there knowing a 3 inch threaded pipe might be 40 cents more than lowes, but sometimes you got to keep the local economy going.
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And if you ask him for something he doesn't have, you can be fanned sure next time you're in he will have it.


Reactive.
 
KevinKohler said:
True, but mom and pops are used to lower margins. Hinge, my first sentence in my post. In addition, increased cost of made in China crap will increase demand for more locally sourced crap. When locally sourced crap is readily available, the mom and pops will be able to start carrying it long before the targets and walmarts of world can.
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Locally sourced crap would be more expensive. The big problem with this tariff issue is people have become dependent on the lower prices of crap, so for those lower on the income scale it becomes even more problematic.
 
KevinKohler said:
And if you ask him for something he doesn't have, you can be fanned sure next time you're in he will have it.


Reactive.
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Sometimes it is better because much of the crap I need the big chain stores will never carry, and demand a bunch of crap to get it special ordered, while with the local guy I can pay it upfront and pick it up. No I do not mean items not in store but sold online, but rather complete oddball stuff like let's say I need an english thread pipe for an antique english car that is a practically unknown thread in the us, I can get it through him much faster than through the internet, he is ancient enough to have connections to all the old timey folks who make that stuff.
 
This is interesting.

A thread that is concerned for Wal-Mart and its shoppers.

What a turn around.
 
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