{"id":69,"date":"2005-10-17T21:31:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com.previewdns.com\/ocblog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2022-08-25T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T06:23:05","slug":"a-trip-to-the-hardware-stone-the-priceservice-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/a-trip-to-the-hardware-stone-the-priceservice-axis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to the Hardware Stone- The Price\/Service Axis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while purchasing hardware for a project, we were amazed to find that one of the local hardware stores was 4-5 times more expensive for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turnbuckle\">turnbuckle<\/a> (to tension wire rope) than all of the other hardware stores in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This particular store is consistently outside of the cost range of their<br \/>\ncompetitors. In a commodity business like hardware, you better either be competitively priced (or look out for pressure from stores like Home Depot- often nick-named &#8220;Home Cheapo&#8221;) or offer better than average service. In the case of this particular store, both are missing.<\/p>\n<p>Business author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\/\">Tom Peters<\/a> underscores the point, have the most competitive prices or offer the best in terms of your product or service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while purchasing hardware for a project, we were amazed to find that one of the local hardware stores was 4-5 times more expensive for a turnbuckle (to tension wire rope) than all of the other hardware stores in the area. This particular store is consistently outside of the cost range of their competitors. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/a-trip-to-the-hardware-stone-the-priceservice-axis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Trip to the Hardware Stone- The Price\/Service Axis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}