...... So, it's not just me then huh?
Hey Dan, how do you really feel about peaveymart?
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It SUCKS.
Ya know what's funny. I always thought TSC sucked too, they never had
ANYthing in stock that was in the flyer, and the revolving door of retail zombies were never interested in helping you, or checking to see if there might be one hiding in the back, or more coming.....But anyway....when I heard of the buyout, and rebranding to Peaveymart a few years ago, I thought, great! This is awesome, a REAL company is taking it over, and will finally run it properly. Ohhhh, But noooooo. It got worse, MUCH worse. I didn't even think it was possible lol.
Most recent story....I needed chicken feed last week, and chose to drive an extra 15 minutes there instead of the local co op because I was also running low on a bunch of hardware of various sizes, and was going to load up a couple bulk bags. Instead the bins were bare. No 1/4" flat washers, no 5/16" bolts, no 3/8" bolts. Bare, almost everything. Damn, walk back to the chicken feed, and there's only 3 bags left. A bunch of the other shelves are bare too....Hmm not good, but at least I got a bag of feed. Walk up to the front, and run into a buddies dad at the cash, also there buying chicken feed, also drove there instead of co op to get other stuff they didn't have...... We started ranting about them not having anything and Long story short, My turn at the cash comes, and the first thing she says, after listening to the pair of us just bitching about wasting a drive there was "did you find everything you were looking for?"......
All I could do was just start laughing as that scene played out in my head. It's not her fault the store is bare, and I'm sure she takes a bunch of shit all day about it. But damn her comedic timing couldn't have been better if she tried. The life of a retail, public service zombie, I remember those days..... Anyway, I just chuckled and said something like, "actually you guys didn't have much of anything I came for today, but at least the chickens wont go hungry", and she sighed and replied "ya, we don't seem to have much anymore" Tough situation, I can't imagine they'll hang on much longer if they don't have product to sell to their core market.
That is actually just my two closest stores, Bowmanville (25 min), and Peterborugh (35 min). They are both equally terrible. The store in Lindsay (45 min) is actually not bad, at least the few times I've been there because either of the other stores not having bottles for bottle exchange, even after you call and they verify that they do.....But then I haven't been there in a while. Maybe they've slid down too.
