RE: Re: [Cal_Boats] West Marine
if you need something fast from wm you can have them overnight it to the store. just have all the skus for the items you want written down and you will spend a maximum of 5 min in the store. if you call ahead, you can ask the store to check for the item in the inventory of all the stores within your stores district, not just that store so they can send you where you need to go the first time.
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> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com
> From: mt… [at] cox.net
> Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 20:59:36 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] West Marine
>
> On May 2, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Chris Campbell wrote:
> It's time for my annual rant about West Marine and their corporate model.
> Jamestown distributers has all this stuff. I know it takes time and there is shipping cost but when you add it up, it is worth it. West Marine is handy for convenience. Plan ahead and use the internet. A few months ago someone asked my about my restoration and I posted the sources.
> Mike Kennedy
> Conquest Cal 40 96
> First, let me say that in the two stores nearest my boats, West's sales
> clerks and managers are sailors. They do attract a staff that
> participates in the activity. That is good.
> But in their product selection, they keep getting worse. I went out to
> buy myself a quart of Pettit Unepoxy for the Cal 20. I had enough in
> the old can to touch up the hull, but I needed a bit on the rudder.
> Well, they don't have it on the shelf any more. And they don't have it
> in the catalog any more. The clerk was singing the praises of Pettit's
> new Vivid...@$60/quart. I looked at the old can of Unepoxy in my hand,
> and I paid $19 for it (on sale, from $27, it looked like). I'm not in
> heavily fouling waters, and I'm not going to pay $60/quart. So I went
> down the road to the place that bought the place that carried
> Pettit--but they don't carry paints any more. So I went back to West
> and bought their store-brand hard antifouling. It's too late to order
> elsewhere so I was trapped.
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