Today I called and requested some parts delivered to the jobsite. They told me the whse person no longer worked there because sales where slow. The two remaining sales guys are going to man the whse. One of them was out on sales calls, so no deliveries...
I remembered someone saying the other day that they were saving some cost by having parts delivered to the job site.
We are now seeing the signs here in Okra-homa......still very busy on backlog, but calls are a crawl......
it's interesting.... i've gotten calls this week from two people, just calling
every licensed contractor, looking for work......
slow is a problem for every retail or wholesale supplier of *everything*,
but electrical and plumbing suppliers are getting a double whammy because
of the copper price falling so much.... i've seen two wholesale housed fold,
and i'm putting it to that....
if you have $2m that you paid for a product, that you can now sell for
$900k, you can either go broke selling it, or go broke not selling it. doesn't
leave many options.
right now, nobody's buying much of anything. i went into costco yesterday,
looking to purchase a flat screen, and the guy i asked about it went out to
the parking lot, got me a flat cart, helped me load it, walked me thru
checkout, pushed it out to my van, and helped me load it... parking lot was
half full.... and it wasn't a high end tv or anything... $900....
stuff is just slow...
except for one interesting thing.... intrest rates spiked on consumer credit
this last week.... i've got two credit cards, and the capitol one is a 4.8%
annual interest rate, and i got a notice saying effective next month, it'll
be 16%......
someone's gotta pay for all those defaults... i guess it's my turn.... :smile:
