[Vision2020] HUGE Box for Stores

[Art Deco]

Tim, et al,

Re: WalMart

When WalMart first opened, they were basically the price leader and in some 
cases by a long way.

That is not true now.  Their prices on many non-clothing items are about the 
same as you would find by shopping carefully elsewhere.  For the few food 
items that WalMart carries, WinCo generally is lower.

For shoes, boots, coats, and performance clothing we shop at Tristate and 
Hyper-Spud.  The service, knowledge, and quality offered are far superior to 
WalMart.

We buy only a few things from WalMart now -- mainly things we cannot get 
elsewhere.

Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy Rigsby" <timo5277 at uidaho.edu>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 5:40 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] HUGE Box for Stores


> According to my employer, Home Depot is on its way.  They have leased 
> land, possibly
> even 40 acres or more, from UI that is situated behind WinCo.  The land in 
> question
> is outside of city limits, so county zoning allows for this to be built. 
> I have also
> heard, through the grapevine, that Target is interested in the Tidyman's 
> building.
>
> Do I agree with UI leasing land to Home Depot? no way, however, people 
> will come to
> realize that the service that they receive from some of these big box 
> stores is in no
> way comparable to the service they receive from locally owned independent 
> stores.  The
> people who work for JJ's, Moscow Building, and Tri-State will out-service 
> all the box
> store personel combined.  See what happens when you buy a lot of material 
> from Home
> Depot and save $2.50 and then go ask them how to install that material.  I 
> doubt you
> will get any advice that is worthwhile.  Believe it or not, but Home Depot 
> and WalMart
> really are not that cheap when compared to JJ's, Moscow Building, or 
> Tri-State.  Yes, a
> few items are sold way below cost as loss leaders to lure people to shop 
> there, but
> overall, when the project is done, the customer would have spent more 
> money at Home
> Depot, they will have a headache talking to the person in the orange vest 
> who has no
> clue that a 2x4 is not actually 2"x4".
>
> I have written literally thousands of quotes for people that are planning 
> decks,
> gazebos, retaining walls, sprinkler, etc. and have shown them that yeah, 
> we are higher
> on some parts, but overall, the bottom line is less.
>
> Moscow is not the place for box stores but we will ultimately have to 
> house some.
> People in this town generally will not shop at box stores if something is 
> sold at a
> locally owned store anyway.  I went to the Moscow WalMart for the first 
> time the other
> month, I was not impressed.  That place is dirty, has narrow aisles, has 
> poor lighting,
> and the staff is not very friendly or helpful.  I have never spent a dime 
> at a WalMart
> and if I can help it never will.  I doubt I will even step foot inside 
> that place ever
> again either.  Even if I have to make five stops to purchase my items, I 
> will,
> especially if I know that the stores that I frequent are locally owned. 
> Why not keep
> Moscow money circulating in Moscow and not sent to the South or some other 
> corporate
> building.
>
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