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Friday, May 01, 2009

Shout Out for our Pump Buyer

I want to publically thank our pump buyer, Ray Savage, for doing a terrific job keeping us in stock during the flood emergency that we experienced across all of our stores.

It was a rare thing for us to be out of pumps during the last two months in any of our stores.  In fact from what I can tell the only time we were out was a couple days we couldn’t get down to Jamestown due to one of the recurring blizzards we were blessed with this spring.

It’s more than watching a few different pumps.  Ray had to make sure we had all of the accessories as well.  He was scrambling to find hose and fittings during the time too.  At one time we were working on getting a back up supply of hose because our supplier is located in Fargo and we didn’t know if we could get to them.

We also need to thank the many people that did what it took to get the pumps in the stores.  We were sending pickups and trucks back and forth trying to keep everything in stock.  At one time a couple weeks ago our Jamestown store manager sent a guy with a truck up to pick up a load.  Those pumps arrived just in time.

I do want to point out that we honored our sale prices 100% of the time during the pump emergency.  We also ate price increases that came up during the time when we couldn’t get the same buy’s on hose and other supplies.

And of course a big thanks needs to be made to those in the stores that did a great job helping out the customers when they needed us the most.  We know that being involved in a flood is a stressful time and the customers aren’t always in the best of moods.  But our team stuck in there and did their best for the customers. 

That’s something I’m very proud of!

Home of Economy Is the Place to Go for Workboots and Western Boots

Over the last few years we’ve really upgraded our boot department.  We’ve greatly expanded our boot displays in Grand Forks, Grafton, Devils Lake and Minot.  Not only that we’re offering far more styles than ever. 

I was just walking through the Grand Forks store and I thought that this new display by the clothing and boot department was a BIG WOW!  Great job!

Here are a few of the other displays in Grand Forks.  This is the Ariat youth display.  The previous picture is primarily Ariat as well.  This line has just exploded for us coming out of no where to become the biggest boot line we sell.  It’s a great line of fashion boots as well as work boots for men.  I’ve talked to some men who say it’s the only pair of boots they’ll wear.

Work boots are still the biggest category.  Our biggest seller is the Wolverine line, followed closely by the Carhartt line of work boots.  You can’t go wrong with these.  We sell an incredible number of steel toed an soft toed work boots. We’ve found that most of the customers want a quality work boot knowing that they’ll be far more comfortable to wear ten hours a day.  Not only that the entry level priced boots (which we also sell) don’t last as long. 

And here’s just part of the men’s work boots we sell.

For service, price, value and quality Home of Economy can’t be beat in boots!