12/31/2004
RIP Scotty's
Interstate4Jamming notes the passing of the Winter Haven-based hardware chain store Scotty's. Convenient places of manageable size.
I remember the last time I was in one. I ran over for plumbing parts and found they had nothing I needed. Instead the place was filled with crappy Dollar Store stuff. Who goes to a hardware store for one-pound bags of hard candy, D-list movies on VHS and T-shirts with dumb slogans on them? All kind of heaped in random piles. It was an insane business strategy. I never went into a Scotty's again.
At one point they even tried turning their stores into indoor flea markets. Like hosting a flea market fills some great unmet need in Florida.
In 2001, the company tried to go back to running, you know, hardware stores, but it just couldn't make itself entirely shake the schlock-merchant strategy, so you still couldn't walk into one secure in the knowledge you'd find the right size sprinkler head.
Seldom has a commercial enterprise tried so many bad ideas on its way down. Now everything is being liquidated. No more reoganization attempts and 470 jobs are gone.
I remember the last time I was in one. I ran over for plumbing parts and found they had nothing I needed. Instead the place was filled with crappy Dollar Store stuff. Who goes to a hardware store for one-pound bags of hard candy, D-list movies on VHS and T-shirts with dumb slogans on them? All kind of heaped in random piles. It was an insane business strategy. I never went into a Scotty's again.
At one point they even tried turning their stores into indoor flea markets. Like hosting a flea market fills some great unmet need in Florida.
In 2001, the company tried to go back to running, you know, hardware stores, but it just couldn't make itself entirely shake the schlock-merchant strategy, so you still couldn't walk into one secure in the knowledge you'd find the right size sprinkler head.
Seldom has a commercial enterprise tried so many bad ideas on its way down. Now everything is being liquidated. No more reoganization attempts and 470 jobs are gone.
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It's been a slow and (too) long decline for Scotty's. 15 years ago, they were the Florida version of Home Depot (which got its start in Georgia, and is still HQed there). The sharp contrast between the two companies is striking.
Frankly, I don't know why they didn't end it 5 years ago. They were just as dead then.
-CT
http://www.populationstatistic.com/
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Frankly, I don't know why they didn't end it 5 years ago. They were just as dead then.
-CT
http://www.populationstatistic.com/
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