Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:
Menards is similar to and competes with Lowes and Home Depot, except that Menards
has a broader selection of household products, including food items I have never seen
in the other two. It is here in the midwest...dunno about Pa., but if there, maybe
Eddie can get in a quick tour.
The difference I found between Lowes and Home Depot is free shipping To store. The competitors do just that with no fine print. What I've found upon examining my Menards receipts is that they charge $4.75 to get the item ready for you. This fee was explained to me as whether this is an in-stock item or not they charge you to handle it. So considering a $19.99 rolling stock that seems unreasonable since the competitors dont do that.
Example: nice flat car $19,99, what a deal yeah!
final stages of online checkout they slide the $4.75 handling fee in...
So this can be considered a 25% handling markup charge. My orders last time two bigger household materials is still have a flat rate charge $4.75 so not that pp
bad but smaller purchases not worth it.
if I'm wrong about this I will gladly delete this post because there are some $20-$25 items I'd like to get. I was really happy when over the weekend I went into local store and saw all red tagged items. The plumbing shack was $13.99, they had about 5 (I could tell that was a deal. At checkout she calls for price and guy says yeah priced wrong mk loft to see the clearance items and they the
Just checked the receipt for the Alaskan flatcar, just shows the price of the flatcar plus tax. No handling charge for shipping to the store.
