drove through Lowes Epping lot this morning around 7. They had maybe 5-6 pallets (unwrapped) of Green Supreme and Maine's Choice and about 6 or so of Greene Team (still fully wrapped).
Sam
I will add to the information.
I was at the Lowe's Rochester store Sunday afternoon to put my name on my four pallets to be
delivered to me. Yes, it is a good idea to pick out the pallets that you want,of the brand that you want..
But Lowe's did assure
me that I would receive pallets, undamaged. Much of Lowe's is poorly managed and communications
are lost all the time. Do Not depend on Lowes to provide accurate information. Even the assistant
manager did not know what brands of pellets Lowe's Rochester had in-stock.
I have a good friend who works at Lowe's Rochester. (She was a nurse in an earlier life, hence, she
is one of the best employees at Lowe's. Send me a private message if you want to learn her name
as she is one of the better sources at Lowe's Rochester.)
She told me that from day the day the directives that come down from
corporate change. With her assistance to keep it legal, she and I spent about 20 minutes behind the store
so I could look over the pallets. Lowe's has the following brands: Maine's Choice, Inferno Gold, Nature's Own,
Nation's Choice, North American, and Green Team.
I would estimate that there were 100 pallets out back of the store. But Lowe's Rochester is officially
"sold-out"
There is substantial damage to pallets. All of which is caused by poorly skilled forklift operators and people
just crashing into pallets. I saw whole corners tore-off pallets. But having said that, *majority* of the pallets,
in my opinion, do not have more than 10 damaged bags (bags partly turned into sawdust).
I asked my friend what is Lowe's going to do with the damage pallets? She said that damaged pallets are
opened-up and bags are are sold individually within the store. I reminded her that Lowe's has no individual bags
for sale right now. She said that Lowes might just discard some of the damaged bags and get credit back from
the mill, but she did admit that most of the damage happened at Lowe's. I asked her if Lowe's would open-up all
damage pallets and re-stack the good bags to make 50 goods bags in each pallets. She said, "No, too much
work."
I asked her if Lowe's would reduce the price further such as $50/pallet and sell the pallet as is. She said that she
does not recall it being done in the past 3 years that she worked there, but it is possible. She told me to call back
every week or two.
The point that I want to share with you is these BBS have a lot a miscommunications and it is a very fluid situation.
You will hear different stories from different people, different days, from different stores,different from
the website. There is NO uniformity.