Who cares if Home Depot is making $6 or $60 profit on them? ...If it really is the case that nobody will buy them, Home Depot will remedy that situation. ...
Ah, yes, that's the theory of free market capitalism. But I've seen so many corporations run by idiots making huge sums of money and making disastrous decisions. In well run stores, local managers who know the stock should make the purchases, or figure heavily in the decision with buyers. But too often its made solely by buyers who figure in only maximum profits and rarely, if ever, see the actual merchandise. They just pick them out of wholesale catalogs and it's up to the sales people to sell them. Forget that the local sales person is dumb as a brick, they work for less money than experienced personnel, who make up the mid-level management. If someone did come in, look at the selection of knives and say, "Oh, crap, I'm outta here," there's no real way they'd know. Customers are like fleas on an elephant's a$$ to them. Losing knife sales won't hurt them a bit. Years ago, they tried to stifle such stupidity through Total Quality Management (remember
that?), or enabling the work force. It was a good idea, but upper management never paid attention.
I'm a CPF member so lights are a bit more of my hobby than knives, and when I say this is not a true statement....
I, too, am a CPFer, and beg to disagree just a bit. It took a long time to get LED flashlights into hardware chains like Home Depot, but today you can find adequately bright LED flashlights that are quality made and, yes, outrageously expensive. They may not be cutting edge, but the equivalent of the Sheffield's knife would be a plastic flashlight with magnets on the side and two no-name non-alkaline batteries on the side. Home Depot can set you up with a good 65 lumens light with adequate runtime or an LED Mini-Maglight/Maglight. Okay, so not as bright as what's available now, you have to admit the construction is decent and the light okay for most hardware applications (like reading stickers in basements and attics). I mean, it's what police were using 3-4 years ago. Still, I know what you're saying.
