September 8, 2005
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Tell you what, how anyone ever makes money in the Fort Worth-Dallas area beats me.
We’re basically a bunch of cheapskates, frankly. Now Mervyn’s is saying “To heck with it.”
I remember when I briefly owned a flooring company here….one of the
vendor reps told me (AFTER I bought the business, naturally) this area
is the most difficult and least profitable for carpet, second only to
the Dalton, Georgia region. It’s also the second largest market
for seconds and overruns.As I said, we’re a cheap bunch.
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Thrifty and careful! That’s what I call it, as a depression age person! Save those plastic bags, card board boxes, rubber bands, paper clips! cut up paper into handy note paper! Use old newspapers to wrap stuff and pack moving boxes. A penny saved is a penny earned, etc etc. Well you get the idea. Thrifty not cheap!
Well, you have the actual stats about carpet sales, I guess, but Erie’s long been known as the haven of cheapskates.
It’s a running joke here that if anything is being given away free here, you’d better get out of the way — no matter how junky it is or no matter how much it might cost people in time or convenience to get what they could have bought themselves at a pretty reasonable price.
Maybe every area is like this to some extent, with the carpet sales price simply reflecting one particular area that is particularly bad in DFW, while something else has a similar claim in many other regions?
What’s Mervyn’s?
This: http://www.mervyns.com/
I grew up shopping at the original Mervyns store in San Lorenzo California. I never knew it went national until I saw the article that they were closing stores. They always had well made, reasonably priced stuff. Plus they had excellent clearance sales! School time always meant a trip to Mervyns.