I had read some recent posts about Lowe's starting their 50% off sale on stoves. So I just came back from three local stores here in Massachusetts and spoke to 3 of their store/dept managers. (BTW is it smart business to have 3 stores 2 of which are brand new within a 15 mile radius of one another???). At store 1 they have all fireplace stuff, mantels, heaters, etc at 50% but not the stoves. The manager says "select stoves" are 10% off, but they might be marked down in a few weeks. Store 2 has all fireplace stuff, mantels, heaters, etc at 50%, but no discounts on the stoves. He says that they might be marking them down later in the season. Store 3 has all fireplace stuff, mantels, heaters, etc at 50% but NO discounts on stoves. He tells me that their new "corporate" policy is that stoves are not a seasonal item and are now considered a year round item and they will not be discounting them at all. In fact they are a "carry forward" item and they will inventory them and not put them on clearance. I asked him "If stoves are a year round item could you tell me how many of these you sell in July and August compared to refrigerators, dishwashers, and other appliances". He responded "Good point, but I don't set the policy". What is interesting is that at all 3 stores they had at least 8 stoves (wood and pellets) in a variety of sizes cluttering the middle of the aisle that is usually reserved for lawn mowers and tractors. Furthermore, in each case all three managers told me it has been "a little while" since they actually sold a stove at their stores. What the hell is going on at Lowe's. Did they get their MBAs from the General Motors school of management???
LOWE'S SALE WHAT'S THE DILLY????
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Check back very regularly, especially as the lawn mowers and barbeques start arriving. You may see them having a rapid change of heart.
Has to be a district level policy. They are on sale here but not many are stocked here so it looks like they are all gone.
Thanks for the advice. It just seems odd that each store would have that many stoves in stock this late in the season and not be willing to discount them. If they do carry them forward it would seem to be bad news for their suppliers.............
lexybird
Minister of Fire
cost of living is higher there and demand is probably greater in your area becuase they are practicaly giving them away around here ,i got my NC13 last week at local lowes for $299 ..it lists for $1,149 on the home depot website
From what I have seen and heard down here, it varies from store to store. My local Home Depot stocked only 3 Englander wood stoves-all three sizes. They have since marked their stoves down about 20%. They sold the largest NC30 stove before they ever had a mark down. The Lowe's here never stocked wood stoves.
I found a Lowe's in the next town over that had only one 1000 square foot burner left and it was full price. However, a Hearth.com member from the next town over posted on another thread that the Lowe's he went to had all their stove at 50% off-but no NC30s.
If your Lowe's still has a lot of stoves in stock, you can play the waiting game, but just keep checking back. I wouldn't even risk calling them to check, because usually the person you talk to is of little help and will often tell you anything to get you off the phone.
You might even want to go ahead an find a Lowe's 10% off coupon and have that ready, just in case.
I found a Lowe's in the next town over that had only one 1000 square foot burner left and it was full price. However, a Hearth.com member from the next town over posted on another thread that the Lowe's he went to had all their stove at 50% off-but no NC30s.
If your Lowe's still has a lot of stoves in stock, you can play the waiting game, but just keep checking back. I wouldn't even risk calling them to check, because usually the person you talk to is of little help and will often tell you anything to get you off the phone.
You might even want to go ahead an find a Lowe's 10% off coupon and have that ready, just in case.
rowerwet
Minister of Fire
A friend of mine works for walmart, they are the same way, one store will put stuff on sale quickly at the end of the "season" (their season) and another will wait half a year before putting them on clearance. It has to do with the sales volume of the store and how much other stuff they have marked down in the same quarter or year. The corporate headquarters gives a target for how much of an an item must be sold before it can be marked down, or until the store just has to unload it to make room for more, OR INVENTORY.
In this backward country we live in the regressive tax code (second highest corporate tax rate in the world)(who do you think pays that? YOU!) taxes you on what you have in inventory, business taxes are due march 15 so look for sales a few weeks before then.
In this backward country we live in the regressive tax code (second highest corporate tax rate in the world)(who do you think pays that? YOU!) taxes you on what you have in inventory, business taxes are due march 15 so look for sales a few weeks before then.
gyrfalcon
Minister of Fire
rowerwet said:
Check it out. The U.S. has the second highest corporate tax rate in the world technically, but nobody pays it because there are so many, many, many deductions and write-offs and loopholes and incentives. The actual effective corporate tax in this country is pretty much the same as every other industrialized country in the world, and lower than some.
No wood stoves at Lowes, here. Out since October. Nothing marked down yet.
Nothing last year (woodstove) to mark down, either. When they marked down the two pellet stoves they had, they were gone by noon.
Store has only been here two years.
Home depot has some things in that dept. marked down 10%, but not pellet stoves, nor wood stoves.
Wood stoves were never more than 10% off last year and when they wanted room for riding mowers they went up on a shelf. Way up the top. Same place they put barbeques that didn't sell at 10% off last Fall.
Neither store has pellets. Still.
I noticed Macy's did the same thing with out of season stock, rather than getting it all out of the store it was all on sale at 50/60% off at Christmas. Summer clothes.
Nothing last year (woodstove) to mark down, either. When they marked down the two pellet stoves they had, they were gone by noon.
Store has only been here two years.
Home depot has some things in that dept. marked down 10%, but not pellet stoves, nor wood stoves.
Wood stoves were never more than 10% off last year and when they wanted room for riding mowers they went up on a shelf. Way up the top. Same place they put barbeques that didn't sell at 10% off last Fall.
Neither store has pellets. Still.
I noticed Macy's did the same thing with out of season stock, rather than getting it all out of the store it was all on sale at 50/60% off at Christmas. Summer clothes.
Out here they're 50% and have been for a week or so not - only a pellet and NC-12 left. A lot went the first day.
rowerwet
Minister of Fire
this is true because the big corporations have lobbyists that get those loopholes written into the tax code for themselves. If you start the next great corporation you will be killed by the tax code until you can buy your loopholes also. (just the lousy politicians making sure they get rich off of you and me) You either buy your tax loopholes or you pay the ridiculous taxes. Either way we are all being strangled by the taxes and fees we pay for every time we buy what we need to live. You want to see an economic turn around? get the government back to the only spending allowed by the constitution, with the 2/3 tax cut we will all get then, WE, and not some bonehead in Washington DC who can only spend more than they take every year, will get this country back to solid financial footing. Taxes are the choke collar on the american econmy.gyrfalcon said:
mellow
Resident Stove Connoisseur
What makes me mad is the Super Cedar fire starters are not part of the 50% off. I would buy a case of them if the price was down to $4 a box.
rowerwet
I am still trying to figure why a month ago when a barrel of oil was at $50 the price of gas was at $1.47 per gallon, and now a barrel of oil drops to $36 and the price of gas shoots up to $1.85 a gallon.
I am still trying to figure why a month ago when a barrel of oil was at $50 the price of gas was at $1.47 per gallon, and now a barrel of oil drops to $36 and the price of gas shoots up to $1.85 a gallon.
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Here in SE Massachusetts no more news on clearance sale. I did notice alot of the new BBQ grills and patio furniture is off to the side near the garden center. Its as if they are on the on deck circle waiting for the stoves to get the f--- out of the way, so they can occupy that space. Though there are still 8 wood and pellet stoves in the way.
Here in SE Massachusetts no more news on clearance sale. I did notice alot of the new BBQ grills and patio furniture is off to the side near the garden center. Its as if they are on the on deck circle waiting for the stoves to get the f--- out of the way, so they can occupy that space. Though there are still 8 wood and pellet stoves in the way.
harleyrace said:
Me too. Have you bought a quart of motor oil lately?
Lowe's sold no stoves this year, but I checked at Home Depot today and they have a bunch of things on "clearance". The 2 13-NCs are $799.00 and the 12-FP is $699.00.
the guy at the Lowes saying the stoves are now year round at his store (and maybe others) and won't be on clearance is probably telling the truth. i asked the same thing about tractors last year and the guy told me the same thing. sure enough those suckers sat and took up half the floor all winter long.
Stevebass4
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coffeedogz3
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harleyrace said:
I'm trying to figure out why gas was $1.73 on 2-9-09 in the morning, then within a few hours later it went to $1.94 at the same station. (glad I save a couple coins when I got it early!) guess it was the full moon! I'm feeling the jabs of the govt knife in my back again! No one does anything about it (or cares because we just take it) - so we can expect to pay $4 again I guess. That gas in their tanks was already there, so why the major hike? (If it was $3.99 and went up 20cents in a few hours we'd gripe, so why not now? money is money). things that make you go... "? ummmm what the ....!!"
Ken45
Minister of Fire
All lawn mowers, no stoves at the Maysville, Ky Lowe's yesterday. I think it's been that way since December.
OTOH, maybe it makes sense to have the mowers out, the grass is starting to green up!
Ken
OTOH, maybe it makes sense to have the mowers out, the grass is starting to green up!
Ken
From what I understand some Lowes will carry stoves all year in the north...CT.MA etc.
We took a ride from CT to Stonybrook NY to get our Summers Heat 13L for $399.50 last weeend. Also my local Lowes in Milford CT moved them to a small section in the back of the store kinda confirms what the sales kid said.
Sorry to bring bad news.
John
We took a ride from CT to Stonybrook NY to get our Summers Heat 13L for $399.50 last weeend. Also my local Lowes in Milford CT moved them to a small section in the back of the store kinda confirms what the sales kid said.
Sorry to bring bad news.
John
We are up to our ears in Lowe's stores around here. I just checked online and half of them have the stoves and heaters at 50% off and the other half do not. Some of these are stores within eight miles of each other.
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