On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:17:43 -0500, "NOYB" wrote:


"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Bought: 6 Mann's Stretch 25+ lures @ $6.48 ea. (They were
$11.95 at the local tackle shop.)

You don't get it.

The $11.95 is a better deal. You not only get a lure, you get to keep a
local
tackle shop. You think the guy who owns the tackle shop will be as
predisposed
to be as helpful and knowledgeable as a local tackle shop guy could be,
once
he's forced out of business by WalMart and its customers and he spends the
last
10 years of his working life at Walmart, greeting his old customers with a
talking cookie?

My local tackle guy does fine. I don't buy my Mann's lures from him unless
I happen to be there getting something else. But he has top notch equipment
like Accurate, Van Staal, Shimano, Penn, Cape Fear, etc. that isn't
available elsewhere. The local guys need to carve themselves a niche...and
my guy seems to have done that to perfection.



Bingo! Give the man a cigar.

You don't try to compete by offering the same items as a high volume
general purpose department store. You'll get squashed every time. What
you need to do is offer the goods and services that the "one size fits
all" places can't match.

Dave