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I think my mind is slipping, I thought I posted this somewhere…
Anybody have a Big R in the area?
The old Walmart got a facelift and originally I thought they went in the old Home Depot down the road from here, but they went in the old Walmart, wanted to clarify that…
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Big R Stores to open in old Wal-Mart building, create 70 jobs
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Closest thing I can think of that is similar to this is Rural King. One of the guys at work was in the store and commented on how big the tool selection is.
So it kind of looks like a Tractor Supply type store to me.
I do remember seeing this somewhere
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We had one and the store split from the chain to become North 40. Depending on how similar it is to ours, it is the greatest store know to man. Huge Milwaukee and DeWalt selection. A lot of Vet supplies and pet stuff. A lot of oddball things you need from specialty stores, but they are open late enough. I do all my clothes shopping there.
Stercorarius wrote:
7 minutes ago, Stercorarius said:We had one and the store split from the chain to become North 40. Depending on how similar it is to ours, it is the greatest store know to man. Huge Milwaukee and DeWalt selection. A lot of Vet supplies and pet stuff. A lot of oddball things you need from specialty stores, but they are open late enough. I do all my clothes shopping there.
Cool thanks for that info man, I haven’t had a chance to be in that area to check it out yet, very cool sounding. There are no good places that have a full selection of tools like that, last time was 8 years ago when both Home Depots were still around
KnarlyCarl wrote:
24 minutes ago, KnarlyCarl said:Cool thanks for that info man, I haven’t had a chance to be in that area to check it out yet, very cool sounding. There are no good places that have a full selection of tools like that, last time was 8 years ago when both Home Depots were still around
Also they have American sized sacks of miscellaneous candy. Sacks not bags.
Stercorarius wrote:
13 hours ago, Stercorarius said:We had one and the store split from the chain to become North 40. Depending on how similar it is to ours, it is the greatest store know to man. Huge Milwaukee and DeWalt selection. A lot of Vet supplies and pet stuff. A lot of oddball things you need from specialty stores, but they are open late enough. I do all my clothes shopping there.
so basically a Menards and a Tractor supply combined and created a Big R?
have a few in the area. basically a rural king.
We don’t have any near us
Never heard of it
Logan wrote:
We don’t have any near us
MikeyB wrote:
Never heard of it
Rural midwest store I believe
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Never heard of it before
Jronman wrote:
9 hours ago, Jronman said:so basically a Menards and a Tractor supply combined and created a Big R?
From what I gather, a bit of Home Depot and a lot of Tractor Supply combined. Home Depot has much larger tool selection than Menards, which is what it sounds is at Big R.
I’ll check it out one of these days, maybe grab a couple pics
KnarlyCarl wrote:
From what I gather, a bit of Home Depot and a lot of Tractor Supply combined. Home Depot has much larger tool selection than Menards, which is what it sounds is at Big R.
I’ll check it out one of these days, maybe grab a couple pics
Menards by me are loaded with Bosch and hitachi, HD might have an edge on quanitity, quality well that’s no competition
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KnarlyCarl wrote:
11 hours ago, KnarlyCarl said:From what I gather, a bit of Home Depot and a lot of Tractor Supply combined. Home Depot has much larger tool selection than Menards, which is what it sounds is at Big R.
I’ll check it out one of these days, maybe grab a couple pics
I said Menards over Home Depot because they sell odd ball things.
JimboS1ice wrote:
11 hours ago, JimboS1ice said:
Menards by me are loaded with Bosch and hitachi, HD might have an edge on quanitity, quality well that’s no competition
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I feel like Menards seems to prefer lots of brands with small selections vs a few good brands with large selections. I found their Bosch selection to be small. Some tools aren’t available particularly their nicer sanders. Menards is a bit more geared towards the homeowner/diy and Home Depot the pro.
KnarlyCarl wrote:
From what I gather, a bit of Home Depot and a lot of Tractor Supply combined. Home Depot has much larger tool selection than Menards, which is what it sounds is at Big R.
I’ll check it out one of these days, maybe grab a couple pics
Damn[emoji17] my tractor supply sucks in terms of tools and clothes. Every now and then I’ll get some shirts there. Only a couple different boots also. I usually have to drive to San Antonio to one of the Western wear stores for boots,denim,carhartt. Everything else I get at academy sports, or Amazon .
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Jronman wrote:
On 12/14/2016 at 10:20 AM, Jronman said:I feel like Menards seems to prefer lots of brands with small selections vs a few good brands with large selections. I found their Bosch selection to be small. Some tools aren’t available particularly their nicer sanders. Menards is a bit more geared towards the homeowner/diy and Home Depot the pro.
Yup that’s how it is here too
Turns out they don’t really have much of anything, just basically an oversized Tractor Supply with a few Milwaukee and DeWalt.
Flexvolt grinder or recip saw kits… $299
I asked them if they could get the M12 bandsaw in, since I have a gift card here. They can’t get it, they don’t have it, they said to order online, but it’s not available, turns out, they don’t have a fraction of the Milwaukee or DeWalt tools available…..what gives
Thats a bust, if you can get anything milwaukee why couldn’t you get a portaband? sounds like they just don’t want to deal with special orders…
JimboS1ice wrote:
9 minutes ago, JimboS1ice said:Thats a bust, if you can get anything milwaukee why couldn’t you get a portaband? sounds like they just don’t want to deal with special orders…
Yeah, oh that reminds me, I did an instagram live video while meandering through the place…still think i like scope better
Some klein eye candy for you viewing pleasure, it’s not much, but this is the largest selection of klein in a store around here, it’s their Milwaukee selection that falls flat.
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Well…they have my MM200 voltmeter and my favorite non-contact voltage tester so they can’t be all bad. Unfortunately no Big R’s in California and no Menards either. Mainly Home Depot and Lowes here.
Never even heard of them
Midwest thing I believe. Pretty much like any other Farm supply store. At least a modern farm supply store.
Nice stores, but only in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Explains why I had never heard of them in North Carolina.
And Illinois
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