Are you seeing any sales at the New England Big Box Stores this Spring?

All of the above... seriously
Add increases in each one, and you get the perfect storm..
Transportation is huge for some of our brands, as it travels over 3,000 miles..
But everyone involved, from logger to us, has had large increases in costs.
And for us, all of the stuff comes from Canada..

Dan

 

Think my Matras come from Canada.

 

Home Depot, Portsmouth, NH and North Hampton, NH are advertising
$199/ton
$176.69/ton for a 3-ton+ bulk purchase.
The website states No delivery is available, i.e. you must transport the pellets.
The website is wrong. I call the Portsmouth store. They said that delivery is
$79 for any number of tons. Time for me to place an order for 10 to 12 tons.

I surveyed the websites of a few other Home Depot Stores located in the Seacoast.
They are all offering the same prices. Not like the Spring 2016 deals, but still
excellent deals. Most stores have 50 to 75 ton in stock as of today.

 

I've seen just to opposite, local TSC has gone up 20 cents per bag in the past month.

Think I need to grab another 20 bags to get me through the rest of the heating season.

 

Oye, if I could store that much that would be great. Delivery would have to be before March 1 as that is when streets are posted for 6 ton limit. Did they say what kind they are? When I look at the "local" HD website it shows Northeast pellets.

 

If it's HD I'm pretty sure they are Green Supreme "Northeast" (NEWP) pellets by Lignetics, best to call the store to verify brand. ( AFAIK, that's what HD in Keene is selling. )

 

Concord does not always carry the same as Keene. and I've seen Nashua carry different pellets than Concord. Or at least that was trua 2 years ago when I was sorking on site so I would stop into that store at times.

 

The employees of the Portsmouth Home Depot said Greene Supreme. I purchased 12 tons.
This weekend, I will open up the plastic of the first pallet and I will know what variety of
Green Supreme I received. Nature's Own and Stove Chow are no longer available.
I will think about whether to purchase more. The delivery man said that the pellets are selling
fast. He said that Home Depot will not need to reduce the price further to sell all inventory.

 

The ones I posed about in Leominster are northern heat. The had probly 100 pallets. Lots of busted and swollen bags.

 

Lignetics owns all the GS blends. Also took over Energex who bagged and distributed stove chows to all the home depots for many years. Would not be surprised if stove chows are one of the 7 different GS's under a different blend now. Why not right?? Product is there just put in a different bag and call it GS whatever flavor.. I would.
.

 

That's very true. I was at both HD locations within 2 days of each other back in late January / last month, same green pallet covering, same "GS" written on each pallet, in Black sharpie marker. Neither store was selling individual bags (at least that I could see) to verify GS blend, but I wasn't there for pellets / did not try to hunt them down. Did ask the helpful folks at each store who verified they were "Green Supreme", but not blend in the bag.

 

Local HD had a few skids of Greens left in the side lot. A few were pretty beat up. Not sure on the pricing. The side lot is now getting filled with mulch and other stuff for spring.

 

Hi,
I have taken possession of 12 tons of Green Supreme Northeast Blend, Made In Canada.
All from Home Depot, Portsmouth. No damage at all to the pallets.
I am not sure the percentage of softwood, but probably 10% to 20%, I am guessing.
I plan to have delivered 6 more tons when the weather improves.
I will start burning some in the next week or so.
I am impressed with the management of Home Depot.
This is the best deal I have ever seen from Home Depot, since when the Blazers arrived
in about 2015 or so.
The pellet pig I am.

 

Can you post a picture of the bag where it says Made in Canada? I believe the ones here do not say that. I would assume those may be the old Fireside Ultras.....maybe

 

I remember the day back then when i walked into HD and right next to the crappy Stove chows we're Blazers.... At same price!!! think 239.00
thought it was a mistake.. my cellar was full.. 5 tons but managed to buy and squeeze about 20 bags in..
after that never saw them again..

 

Hi, I have to apologize. I am probably the only person in New England who does not have a
cell phone with a camera. On the bottom of the Green Supreme Northeast Blend, it has printed
Product of Canada. It is printed first in French, then in English. I am hoping that these bags
came from the former Energex mills in Quebec. I too would be curious to know if these are the same
formula as the Nature's Own (From Canada version) and Fire Side Ultra. The Lignetics website
states that the Green Supreme Northeast Blend comes from NY, NH, ME, and CAN.
The Lignetics website states that these pellets are Softwood/Hardwood. I have not found out
what percentages.

 

The website must have been updated as last time I looked, they just mentioned NY and NH. Or maybe I'm remembering the bags of GS I got off CL last summer. Be nice if those are FSU's in there.

 

OK. I have completed my pellet pig sale buying. The final pallets were delivered today
completing my purchase of 20 tons of Green Supreme at about $180/ton including
shipping. The pallets wrapped in white plastic are Product of Canada, came from
the Portsmouth Home Depot. Today, I received pallets wrapped in green plastic,
the pallets come from the Somersworth Home Depot Store. The plastic of the pallets
is in good condition. I will not be opening up
a pallet of green plastic until about May, when I move more bags to indoors. At
that time, I will confirm my suspicion that the pallets wrapped in green plastic
are from the NH Mill. The driver told me that pallets left at the Somersworth Store
are more and more torn-up. Seeing that heating oil is rapidly approaching $4.00/gal, I predict that
next Fall will be a big run on wood pellets.

 

Bit hte bullet and ordered 6 tons from Concord HD (they have NE blend). Now just gotta get my road agent to send them the okay to deliver next Friday.

I was shocked that the delivery charge is only $79. So I still paid only $3.80/bag. I wish I could take more!

 

Home Depot volunteered to refund my shipping charge on the second order.
In the unlikely event that Home Depot has inventory remaining later on in
March and if they reduce the price to $100/ton; I will find a way to place more
pallets in my yard. I know it is not likely to happen and I do not really expect
Home Depot to reduce the price further. Just thinking about future 'What if"
scenarios.