Such a shame, what waste! You would think that somebody in charge there would know better.
Walmart's here do but I've never perused their pellets at all. 2 bucks is an excellent price if good (and dry) and for mulch, 2 bucks ain't bad either. Like tires, I never buy them at Walmart. The tire jockeys there are basically idiots. Overtighten lug nuts and poorly balance them, sort of like the 10 minute oil change places, also staffed with dorks. I avoid those places like the plague.
I didn't think much of their auto shop, but decided once to give them a chance when I didn't have the time to change my own oil years ago. It was a dodge minivan. So when I went to get in and drive away, I glanced under the front to make sure the drain plug looked like it was installed correctly before planning to pop the hood and check the levels. Well, there was oil dripping from my engine down onto the pavement! Some knucklehead was using a funnel to poor the oil and just filled the funnel full and the funnel slipped and spilled all that oil over the top of my engine. They didn't even bother to tell me or sop/clean up the mess. I will never take another vehicle there to have work done if I have any kind of choice.Walmart's here do but I've never perused their pellets at all. 2 bucks is an excellent price if good (and dry) and for mulch, 2 bucks ain't bad either. Like tires, I never buy them at Walmart. The tire jockeys there are basically idiots. Overtighten lug nuts and poorly balance them, sort of like the 10 minute oil change places, also staffed with dorks. I avoid those places like the plague.
I'm hoping that my experience is closer to those reviewers that say they're excellent pellets. But unless they're horrible I figure they'll be worth at least the roughly $2.30 per bag it cost me (factoring in gas money).I sure hope they are good for you will get plenty of cheap burning with those--sure hope you got the bargain of the year,,clancey
The bags I got were not inside the store, but they were on shrink wrapped pallets that kept the water out. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.Let us know if they wind up good and I am betting they are for you picked the bags out some of those bags looked pretty bad with blow up look----------Betting you got good ones from inside the store...fingers crossed...Now if you could make the gas prices come down..lol clancey
Everyone makes mistakes, it's human nature. Incompetence on the other hand has no excuse. I retired from a heavy truck dealership (Western Star) years ago and I still remember when the night foreman in the shop was doing a service on a big Caterpillar diesel in a large car and he was busy fielding phone calls and forgot to tighten the drain plug on the oil pan. That moment of lapse attention cost the dealership 22 grand for a new Caterpillar 3406 plus they paid for the take out of the blown motor, the wrecker bill and the install of the new one too. Diesels don't last very long with no oil. My boss didn't fire him but he wasn't too awful happy either.I didn't think much of their auto shop, but decided once to give them a chance when I didn't have the time to change my own oil years ago. It was a dodge minivan. So when I went to get in and drive away, I glanced under the front to make sure the drain plug looked like it was installed correctly before planning to pop the hood and check the levels. Well, there was oil dripping from my engine down onto the pavement! Some knucklehead was using a funnel to poor the oil and just filled the funnel full and the funnel slipped and spilled all that oil over the top of my engine. They didn't even bother to tell me or sop/clean up the mess. I will never take another vehicle there to have work done if I have any kind of choice.
Tractor Supply is good for that (impaling bags) as well. Around here we call them 'Tough Shitte Charlies, where everything is scratched, dented or broken'.....The easiest way I can tell when a bag has gotten wet inside, is there is hard lump.
One pallet had many bags that were dripping wet. Like water and wet sawdust running out when I picked it up. I just tossed them back in and took the whole thing back to the store. That was when the inept fork truck driver tore the plastic when stacking pallets. He couldn’t even get the pallet into my trailer without repeatedly stabbing the bottom bags. They were getting a lot of wet pellet returns, and thought the pellet company to blame. I told them what I saw and I never saw that guy loading after that.
If water can't get to them, they'll be fine. I wonder though how long it takes humidity to "soak" into pellets, especially those in bags that are perforated as part of the bag design. The Pennington bags have small vent holes on the back for some reason. Pretty much any bag of pellets will have likely have a few small micro abrasion type cuts from broken ends of pellets cutting the plastic during handling.Almost the exact opposite at my local TSC (other than the stabbing of the bags with the forks when loading on my Gooseneck trailer.
Outside pallets are kept under a hoop building out of the weather, shrink wrapped and all have plastic shrouds.
Actually, I've stored pellets outside in the winter (with snow on top of them) shrink wrapped with plastic shrouds and no issues at all with bloated bags...
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