$5.18 for FSU's at HD in Concord - been there for a couple of weeks. Plus the discount for using their CC makes them at <$5/bag.
I know a few stores around here stopped giving military discounts as they were getting abused. Shame in the store for not checking IDs I guess?
That is so true. I am grateful to those that give a military discount, but I don't hold it against business that does not. It is their individual terms of doing business and we know that when we enter their stores. I am a bit peeved at HD because they keep changing their policy about it. It has changed several times. Hard to predict. Lowes on the other hand, has been 10%. period. I have also found lowes to be easier to deal with when it comes to returns etc.
Interesting observation - I've never had an issue returning items to HD. Even had them offer to reorder and deliver replacement special order products and pick up the defective one even though policy is that you need to return before they will even reorder. Maybe I have found the exceptions to the rule (dealt with returning items to two different HD's). But to be fair, I've never returned anything to Lowe's, so don't how they are to deal with.
It is concerning to see the news IHP, fully agree - although here in the US, I'm not so worried about it. Given OPEC's in-fighting, and Iran potentially coming back into the market real-soon-now, I would venture to guess oil prices will be depressed for some time, regardless of the production cuts / contraction that is occurring in the North American market now. *Of course, I'm just a guy who lives in the woods, roasts Pellets, and drinks Beer, so what the .... do I know.
That is why funds have safe havens --- Think bond fund -- Better a few % than minus numbers. In the last crash I gained 4% in 3 months using Utilities and Bonds while the stock funds were falling off the cliff (in my fund family stocks lost 28% in the same period). A ride I was happy to miss.
I think (more importantly a acquaintance who is involved in the industry believes) that oil will go south of 32 (it just did) to perhaps 28 a barrel. The "new" high will be around 40 - 42 sometime in the future because that is where it pays to bring shale oil back to market enmass. I also think that the biggest upward price pressure will come from State & Federal governments who are chomping at the bit to take advantage of these low prices to raise taxes. The States as a revenue source and the Feds as primarily a behavioral tax and to a lesser degree to raise revenue. At any rate, despite the big business talking heads dire warnings about energy deflation being bad for us I personally will enjoy the break.
Dug out my old oil slips, and found late 2004 I was paying $1.56 for oil,& I was paying $170 a ton for pellets. 2003, first year of me burning pellets, was $150.
Interesting that last season HD was selling the at $240 or whatever it was and now this season they can't move them. Things are slow but pellets seem to be moving somewhat.
