Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:03:23 +0000
Reply-To: Chris DeLong <green536@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Chris DeLong <green536@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: price of milk (was RE: 2.1 hose price deal
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Well if you read what you wrote you would see that you had contradicted
yourself. The grocery store exploits you for money due to the fact that they
have everything in one place. Nothing wrong with that. If you never go to
the quick-e-mart. I go there regularly. I get my milk there too.
Chris DeLong
Fine Tuning
206.427.4777
www.finetuningperformance.com
Seattle, WA USA
>From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
>Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: price of milk (was RE: 2.1 hose price deal
>Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 23:45:36 -0400
>
>Loss leaders, in some cases. Typically many other products will be more
>expensive at the local convenience store. They also have little to choose
>from.
>
>The grocery store isn't exactly exploiting anything. They are providing a
>useful service of having it all in one store. To customers who value
>their
>time (and drive low-mileage vanagons - see, it IS relevant! :-), it's
>preferable to shop there than to spend time and gasoline running around
>time
>searching for bargains on individual items.
>
>Is it still Friday somewhere?
>
>
>
>Joy
>
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>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> > Of Chris DeLong
> > Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 1:36 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: 2.1 hose price deal
> >
> >
> > please explain how a gallon of milk at the grocery store is 3.50 and the
> > same gallon of milk is 1.99 at the quik-e-mart. also how is it that a
>half
> > rack of Corona is 16.00 at the grocery store and its 12.00 at the
> > quick-e-mart. also a pack of Marlboro cigarettes is 5.40 and at the
> > quick-e-mart they are 4.60 at the quick-e-mart. Doesnt sound to
> > me like a 5%
> > profit.
> >
> > Sounds to me like the grocery store is exploiting the fact that
>everything
> > is all in one place.
> >
> >
> >
> > Chris DeLong
> > Fine Tuning
> > 206.427.4777
> > www.finetuningperformance.com
> > Seattle, WA USA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Norm - RoweBoat <norm@ROWEBOAT.COM>
> > >Reply-To: Norm - RoweBoat <norm@ROWEBOAT.COM>
> > >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > >Subject: Re: 2.1 hose price deal
> > >Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 10:08:48 -0700
> > >
> > >Some items in grocery stores are marked up at a higher rate than
>others.
> > >From what I understand (and never having been in the grocery business,
>I
> > >can't speak from first-hand knowledge) the overall profit margin is
>about
> > >5%
> > >and their costs (rent, insurance, wages, advertising, etc.) get
> > covered by
> > >that. Which means high sales volume is critical.
> > >
> > >Plus, at a car dealership, it isn't the car sales that really makes the
> > >money and keeps the place in business. The Parts Dept. helps
> > some, but the
> > >main profit center is the Service Dept. The Service Dept. is
> > what usually
> > >makes or breaks a dealership. And if your dealership acts as a
> > district or
> > >regional parts supplier (which we weren't, it was just a small town
> > >dealership) and offer some of your commercial customers a 35% discount
> > >(keeping 5% for yourself), you're still making a little bit off of the
> > >discounted parts and your standard 40% off of the bulk of your
> > parts sales
> > >(parts used by the Service Dept. on customers' vehicles and
> > >across-the-counter sales) so you're still showing a good profit margin.
> > >
> > >Norm
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:06:25 -0700
> > >From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
> > >Subject: Re: 2.1 hose price deal NVC
> > >
> > >That margin is after paying fro rent, insurance, wages, advertising,
>etc.
> > >Not direct, item-by-item mark-up.
> > >
> > >Karl Wolz
> > > >
> > > > I used to work in the Parts Dept. at an Olds/Cadillac, GMC Truck
> > >dealership. > Our prices were across the board 60% cost, 40% markup.
>So
> > >even if we sold > to someone at a 35% discount, we still had a
> > %5 margin.
> > >Not much, but most > grocery stores operate on a 5% average
> > profit margin.
> > > > > Norm
> >
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