Ah yes, I could have tried that, no?
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Usually works if I'm traveling somewhere and visit a chain I'm not familiar with and they're difficult about the whole loyalty card bit, don't have a store card for out of towners etc. I'll just ask "what's the area code here" if I don't know it then put in the number...
Agreed, although their biggest problem was that they would have signs in the store and you'd have to find a way to apply the offer. If it has a sign or tag in the store it's automatically applied now. That alone is a big improvement as it did not work well if at all before, I always would find a offer that didn't apply.storewanderer wrote: ↑May 4th, 2024, 5:52 pm Also looking at manufacturer coupons primarily on drugstore products and you have to "APPLY" these offers via the app before checkout to use. That is not "AUTOMATIC" at all...
So it appears to work like this:
"DEAL" - "auto applied" - these look like the old sale prices from the past...
"COUPON" - you have to "APPLY" it which is the same as clipping it. This is NOT automatic in the slightest.
"BONUS" - which is what this 20% Good & Gather offer I am referring to above is - again you have to actually "APPLY" it in order to get it. Again this is NOT automatic in the slightest.
They probably don't have anyone left at the corporate office who remembers how much money they lost on plants before. They only had full build nurseries in 4 western states so they could not achieve economy of scale or force good margins versus if they were nationwide. Home Depot and Lowe's have decimated the nursery industry, and now they have horrible quality at horrible prices since they have a duopoly in many areas. There are still some chains left like Armstrong in SoCal but they have skewed to more premium quality plants that don't really compete with the other two. HD has pushed small cell 6 pack bedding packs where the plants and soil are half the size of normal so the plants are easily stunted and never grow to full size, while Lowe's has tried to eliminate the standard "6 pack" of bedding plants and replace everything with 4 inch rounds or squares so one plant costs half what Armstrong charges for a normal six pack. The two have become the most expensive options which is nuts.storewanderer wrote: ↑May 5th, 2024, 12:50 am Target appears to be re-entering the live plant business; there are live plant displays in front of the Reno Target.
It is also forecasted to go to a low of 31 degrees in Reno tonight. Most other stores don't have many live plants yet; the grocery stores that typically throw a few racks outside don't have any yet. Oops. At least they are trying?
That's not at all what I've experienced with Home Depot in the Upper Midwest. They still sell most of their bedding annuals in 8-packs of "normal" size, or at least there has been no shrinkage of the individual plant cells. Although the base price for an 8-pack has experienced inflation in the past few years, last year, IIRC, it was still a decent enough $3.78.ClownLoach wrote: ↑May 5th, 2024, 10:43 am Home Depot and Lowe's have decimated the nursery industry, and now they have horrible quality at horrible prices since they have a duopoly in many areas. There are still some chains left like Armstrong in SoCal but they have skewed to more premium quality plants that don't really compete with the other two. HD has pushed small cell 6 pack bedding packs where the plants and soil are half the size of normal so the plants are easily stunted and never grow to full size, while Lowe's has tried to eliminate the standard "6 pack" of bedding plants and replace everything with 4 inch rounds or squares so one plant costs half what Armstrong charges for a normal six pack. The two have become the most expensive options which is nuts.