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What drives me nuts is that these stores aren't hardware stores.
I can deal with the fact that you have to buy a box of nails, instead of the three pounds you need. But you can't buy fence clips at the fastener isle, you have to go buy a box two hundred yards down the store at the fence isle.
When Lowe's opened here, I walked in and asked them where the hardware cloth was. No one knew where it was. Or WHAT it was. But, I needed 12 x 4 ft of hardware cloth. Used to be, you would go in to the hardware section, and roll off however many feet of cloth you needed, paid for it, and that was that.
Now, I have 12 ft x 4 ft screens. Lowe's and Home depot have 3x25 or 4x8 (or something) rolls. Precut and wrapped. WTF am I going to do with half a screen? So, now I have to special order my hardware cloth, pay the Yellow Freight Theft rate, and end up storing 300ft of hardware cloth I might use up in four years.
Just PEACHY.
JMO, Dutch.
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