Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Originally Posted By: Tdbo
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Originally Posted By: Tdbo
The marketplace will ultimately determine the fate for this store and others like it (such as Homier and other traveling tool shows.) There are many people that suffer from budget limitations, that make vendors like these their only viable option. Judging from my observations, I'd say that they are meeting the needs of many people and will be doing so into the future.
No, it won't, because many people blindly follow the "disposable society" mindset that goes along with shopping for bargain basement junk at places like HF and Walmart. They end up spending MORE money in the end on items that ultimately end up in a landfill somewhere because they are consumer whores with no concept of "value".
People USED to save up for a tool and buy it once. People used to buy quality appliances using the same yardstick. Consumerism is a virus that has infected society on all levels and cons people into thinking they need the latest and greatest at the cheapest possible price. That leads to off-shoring and cost cutting, and subsequently the loss of VALUE. Quality tools have VALUE, because they can be passed on through generations and won't break the first time you try and really use them. People used to buy QUALITY with PRIDE, now we buy VOLUME with GREED.
It is all connected.
Yes it will, because Harbor Freight will either have a successful business model or they will cease to be in business.
I agree with your philosophy but the "values" of much of the buying public have changed.
Well we all know the business model works, look at Walmart, LOL!
And yes, the values of the public have certainly changed. And not for the better I fear.
AMEN!
The issue about the values of the public at least in the USA changing...well first of all the media has waged a campaign to celebrate the "throwaway society" that we have today. Also because folks that once had good paying manufacturing jobs in the USA now because that work has all be outsourced to third world slave wage nations like China, are literally forced to buy cheap because that is all they can afford now with there [censored] 8.50 /hr service job.
Keep preaching OVERKILL. Even if some folks don't like it, you are correct, 100%.