Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Nut and Bolt shop Message-ID: <5626@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 13:59:15 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.5626 Posted: Sun Feb 12 13:59:15 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Feb-84 01:27:04 EST Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 17 The Nut and Bolt shop company is for real (actually, there are several companies in this business but only one with that name, it is in the upper Midwest somewhere--Minnesota, Wisconsin, something like that). Basically their gimmick is to have realized that the vast bulk of the cost of a nut or bolt when you buy it in the store is the labor involved in sorting and packaging it. The hardware itself is practically free. So they sell a bundled product, and save the labor costs of processing specific orders for 10 of these and 20 of those. I have bought at least one of everything they sell, and so has my brother who lives on a farm in Maine. No complaints. Sure beats driving to the hardware store. Brian Reid reid@Shasta.ARPA Stanford University {decwrl,ucbvax,sun}!Shasta!reid (and DEC Western research)