Menard's opened a new store in Florence, Ky yesterday, sadly, no model train stuff.
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I thought they were a northeastern regional company, so Kentucky would be the farthest south they have built a store. Is that right?
Don’t worry. They will have a bunch out at Christmas. Even the store in Eau Claire Wisconsin doesn’t have any train stuff out right now.
tncentrr posted:I thought they were a northeastern regional company, so Kentucky would be the farthest south they have built a store. Is that right?
I think so, but they do have stores in Cincinnati, Jeffersonville IN (just across Ohio River north of Louisville, Ky) and in Evansville IN.
Troy Towery posted:Menard's opened a new store in Florence, Ky yesterday, sadly, no model train stuff.
Considered seasonal items, especially for a new store. Probably have train stuff out in the Fall.
We have seveal new stores in the northern Ohio area in recent months.
They are expanding. I welcome Menards and Meijer to northeast Ohio , now my boycott of WalMart can be easily done.
You can have things shipped to the store, but in fall the train merchandise gets displayed where the summer seasonal items are currently
Grampstrains posted:tncentrr posted:I thought they were a northeastern regional company, so Kentucky would be the farthest south they have built a store. Is that right?
Menard's is out of Wisconsin. The most southern store is Hollister, Missouri.
I have lived in the Northeast, (NH) for over 50 years and I have search diligently and have never found a Menards in the Northeast. I think if you check Menards website their stores only go east about as far as Indiana or maybe western Ohio. Really wish there was one in the Northeast but so far I haven’t found one.
Jim
Maybe they will open a store in Tennessee. We are the next state to the south of Kentucky, after all.
rattler21 posted:Troy Towery posted:Menard's opened a new store in Florence, Ky yesterday, sadly, no model train stuff.
Did you ask the manager or are you reporting what you didn't see on the shelves? Many stores have non-seasonal items on a mezzanine and will allow you in that area. John in Lansing, ILL
Checked the upstairs storage area as I do at all Menards, nothing but outdoor and grille supplies.
johnstrains posted:Troy Towery posted:Menard's opened a new store in Florence, Ky yesterday, sadly, no model train stuff.
Considered seasonal items, especially for a new store. Probably have train stuff out in the Fall.
I consider ALL SEASONS are train season.
Uh...Menards is north central (Wisconsin) and at least as far east as NE Columbus, Ohio....dunno about Akron-Cleveland, but bet they are coming. I think these big box stores have computerized inventory, and revolve inventory when seasonal demand is expected...filling those shelves now with current high demand summer items..
Troy Towery posted:tncentrr posted:I thought they were a northeastern regional company, so Kentucky would be the farthest south they have built a store. Is that right?
I think so, but they do have stores in Cincinnati, Jeffersonville IN (just across Ohio River north of Louisville, Ky) and in Evansville IN.
There's one in Owensboro KY as well.
Scott Smith
I'm still wait ing for one to come to South Carolina 
Menards usually freshly stocks the shelves with trains in mid to late October as part of its changeover of its seasonal department to toys.
New items announced in November and December also get added to the store mix, but not every item in Menards’ train catalog makes it to the store shelves, and the stock dwindles after Christmas with no new merchandise added. Eventually, the remaining train stock is either moved to an upstairs seasonal overstock area (in older stores) or compacted into a smaller area in the seasonal department (in the larger modern stores).
Menards (the apostrophe was dropped years ago) was founded by John Menard in the 1950s and is based in Eau Claire, WI, where the company has a huge corporate campus and distribution center, including a rail spur behind its central distribution center there.
According to its website, it has more than 300 stores in 14 states — Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. So it certainly isn’t a northeastern chain, nor is it strictly a midwestern chain any longer.
