Tractor Supply has gone woke. Haven't shopped there in over a year because their prices are higher (often by almost 50%) than their competition. That, and even the last time I was in one of their stores, they had stopped being what they were founded as (we sell tractors and tractor accessories), and had become Kitsch Mart. Yeah, it turns out their "new" CEO is the guy who ran Macy's almost into the ground a while back and got canned.
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Well, they're now Dillard's/Macy's/Belk's for the "urban homesteader" crowd. Pretty much, they're now Ace Hardware/Pottery Barn for the people who are pretending to be farmers. The quality of the actual tractor things they carry has gone down just since the new CEO took over. And their prices are now higher than Lowe's or Home Depot for the things that bosh carry.
At my local store, their prices have always been higher than the Lowe's a few miles down the road. I buy my mower parts at Lowe's because TSC is at least 25% higher, if they even carry it. They have gone the way of Ace, higher prices and intermittent availability.
Avaliability and price in store are increasingly a problem. I tried to buy a powerbank that wasen't a ripoff after returning one that was under recall, which was 12 500 mAh for $20.
Mine still worked. I regret returning it, because good luck finding something reasonable now.
Local Costcos had one single model, as a pack of two batteries of 5 000 mAh for $51+taxes.
So less than half the capacity and $5.50 more per baterry vs previous product at Costo.
So effectively a more than 150% price increase.
Amazon ( after weeding out the products with the worse ratings that are likely to break fast ) had something close to what I paied for previously per unit, but in a pack of two, with shipping included.
Costumers should not have to resort to Amazon for such a basic item. It's not like Costco cannot negociate a worthy bulk price deal.
One would expect Costco to stock several options with at least one model that can be used to give some juice to one of those tablets and laptops they sell. Nah, buy this overpriced product that can charge your cellphone once and let your laptop wonder if you plugged anything at all.
Amazon is flooded with chinkshit and bot reviews, so that's not a guarantee. Even name brands are suspect because counterfeiters take advantage of "fulfilled by Amazon" by dumping their fake shit with Amazon's legit products.
All good points.
Within a 30 days window you're covered for defective or misrepresented products, but it's always a gamble with Chinese products that can break after a month, especially if they don't have a US website ( and thus might ignore you if you want the "x months warranty" honored and you can't get Consumer Protection on their ass. ).
P.S. : Bothering to return a defective product, if done by alot of costumers, stings Amazon enough to make them refuse to sell a product, or kick the seller off.