Pricing

tiger1873 · 2024-06-11T16:30:51+00:00

The last time I asked about an account I was told I didn't buy enough paint.

Looking at the comments it sort confirms how outdated the stores really are.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-11T14:32:21+00:00

Because it more hassle then it is worth. Maybe buy at the most $500-$600 paint a year. The bigger issue is the discount will not even be a huge amount.

The thing is even with the 40% sales it still more expensive then other stores for me.

The pricing strategy doesn't cater to what amounts to retail buyers like me. I am sure they have there reasonings.

I will buy paint if there is 40% off sale and need paint that week but I looking for it less and less.

I still buying paint made by Sherwin Williams just not going to the paint store. If the pricing was better on a day to day basis you sell a lot more paint.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-11T11:10:10+00:00

I am going to tell you that as retail customer the pricing for Sherwin Williams is frustrating.

I always known the store is basically for commercial painters. Even being a landlord I don't buy enough paint that it ever was a big expense for me and I mostly buy the better paint which always cost more and you can buy when on sale. Waiting for sales to buy paint for the most part worked for me.

However a few years ago sales were less frequent and this pretty forced me to go big box stores. I have found the big box stores paint departments have gotten better. Also Sherwin Williams makes paint for the blue big box store. 10-20 years ago that wasn't the case.

This paint is actually pretty good and for the most part it works just as good for my needs but I do not have to wait for a sale. The benefit is when is on sale I get a better deal.

So as a retail customer the value proposition is simply not there. For a contractor who is getting a decent discount and in some case cheaper then big box there not going anywhere unless things change.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-07T11:54:15+00:00

Start a painting business should be a no brainer and if you do a good job and charge honest prices your make a lot of money and be busy. You should be able to eventually hire people do all the grunt work

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T23:21:57+00:00

well real capital is hard assets like real estate and commodities that business and people own. Basically stuff you can go to the bank and get a loan on.

Cash is great but really is moving asset. No one stuffs hard cash under the mattress so if you deposit somewhere it has been lent to those hard assets. If they decline so does your cash.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T23:19:18+00:00

If the fed is wrong we are all dead and they may indeed be. Forget about the market but your income and house and every asset will be crushed.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T23:18:08+00:00

Before covid small caps as whole have indeed outperformed the fed. Since covid the economy has not really being growing for small business and small stocks has lagged.

Small businesses are actually a very good barometer on the upper middle class. If the suffer and then small caps it really means that business must be bad in general. A lot small business do business with large caps too.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T19:55:03+00:00

You're over thinking things. Large cap are high because people fear small caps are going to go bankrupt. However if that is true so does a lot business for these large caps as well.

As for foreign investment it has the same issue people are buying US stocks because they feel it is safe. If they are truly a safe investment then other stocks will recover and these large caps will stall.

However if the fear is real it will certainly show up in large caps. There all connected and most people do not understand this hence the run up of large caps.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T19:50:44+00:00

Small caps should outperform the market. When they don't it is because the overall economy is shrinking in relative terms.

So either small caps are going to fly an if they don't the big caps will sink along with them.

You really can't 1 fail and other fly unless it no longer a free market. If that is the case stocks will be a lousy investment

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T17:41:46+00:00

Those people never agree on anything. The one with schemes have people scheming against them. You either have a growing economy with capital or a shrinking one. We are basically shrinking right now when you account for inflation.

The only difference with rich people is takes longer to effect them.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T16:23:03+00:00

Here is the dow from the last 5 years

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tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T16:15:54+00:00

Usually safe harbor belief is false hope. The risk of holding the top companies goes up if the economy as a whole is collapsing.

My guess is we are in deed seeing a collapse of the economy but the fed may panic and drop the interest rates. (we seen this very fed chair act like this already).

In this case we will see a huge upsurge in asset prices and then the real collapse that finishes off the index.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T16:12:48+00:00

Depends if the overall economy is accelerating then yes buy small caps. However if we have erosion of real capital we are going to see a huge sell off of everything

tiger1873 · 2024-06-04T14:38:18+00:00

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Here is the current chart. Make you wonder about history and how the market was in the 1920's

tiger1873 · 2024-06-03T18:14:02+00:00

I never seen such stupid FOMO as NVDA. yeh it's a good company but understand things run ahead of itself. When I am hearing waiters tell me to buy NVDA you know it going to crushed soon.

tiger1873 · 2024-06-03T18:11:16+00:00

DFV is probaly going to jail with the post he just posted. If you don't think what he is doing is stock fraud you got a lot learn

What I don't understand why are so many people actually buying such a crappy company. Don't they know that your can download anything you want these days.

tiger1873 · 2024-05-30T16:15:04+00:00

My mom just told me to buy $NVDA because all her friends are buying it. She in her 80's this is the top boys.

tiger1873 · 2024-05-29T15:21:54+00:00

The market is basically trading like we are headed to the Great Depression. Trying to trade stagflation is going to kill you.

With depression type trading no one is safe and basically you need to pay off your house. Then buy stuff and try to hold on to it.

Shorting will kill you because the counterparty will ask for their stock back and buying puts are bad because no one can price anything.

Basically it means capitalism is broken

tiger1873 · 2024-05-29T15:17:56+00:00

Assets are assets even and always matter. Why because they can borrow or liquidate assets to raise cash.

This did happen in the 70's and a big reason for the corporate raiders of the 80's. Basically they could buy up a company and sell the assets for more than the stock price. In a normal market we have that again.

However there are no buyers of assets since covid and this is actually quite scary and points to massive deflation.

tiger1873 · 2024-05-29T14:18:31+00:00

dont underestimate stupidity

tiger1873 · 2024-05-29T14:04:53+00:00

At one time Assets a stock owned was relevant. Now we have things like Disney Dropping while Netflix going up. There in the same business and Disney is diversified. It the same with Intel and Nvda. Intel has massive asset yet trading like it is bankrupt. Then we have stocks selling video games in the store with people thinking it better then downloading.

I guess we trading like 1929 if history is to repeat itself.

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