{"id":3345,"date":"2014-06-30T07:07:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2014-06-30T07:31:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:31:52","slug":"elliots-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3345","title":{"rendered":"Elliott\u2019s Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"USA<\/a>

American Flag<\/p><\/div>\n

I went to an Elliott\u2019s Hardware Store here in Dallas, TX on Sunday afternoon to purchase a new outdoor US flag and a Texas state flag. As a proud US Navy veteran I fly them\u00a0almost constantly on my home. Not just for holidays.<\/p>\n

My wife and I have purchased our\u00a0flags from Elliott\u2019s for 20 years as they were of good quality. Not so anymore. The store was bought out by new owners (the reason they are now open on Sunday) and many things have changed. They used to have nothing but the good stuff. Now it appears to be 50\/50 junk, like the box stores.<\/p>\n

They did have one (1) fair quality 3×5 printed but unsown Texas flag in stock without the staff, in the size I wanted – but no separate staffs available.<\/p>\n

I was actually in tears as I drove away without a new flag.<\/em> \u00a0I get emotional about patriotic stuff. I didn\u2019t want a $10.00 cheap dyed flag \u201ckit\u201d for one day use. I was looking for a good quality flag WITH a quality staff as one of the old flag staffs got damaged in recent storms here is Texas. The \u201ckits\u201d had 3 sections, flimsy; push together, \u00be ultra thin-wall tubing for the staff. They must have had a hundred on display. Yeah, a whopping $500-$600 investment in inventory by Elliott\u2019s marketing people.<\/p>\n

Yet they had probably hundreds of flags hanging all over the store for the holiday. Sure sends me a mixed message. Elliott\u2019s has always been my go-to place for quality goods. Surely they would have good quality flags in stock for the holiday.<\/p>\n

Amazon has the same cheap flags (and brand) as Elliott\u2019s but they also show more expensive outdoor quality sewn flags for both Texas and the US<\/strong> <\/a>by a different\u00a0\u00a0maker. As I said, I fly both almost constantly on my porch. They also listed good sturdy flag staffs. Thank you Elliott\u2019s for driving me to go check Amazon for the good stuff.<\/p>\n

I was looking for the 3×5 foot outdoor size and not the cheaper 2.5×4 dyed flag. It is obvious that the new Elliott’s owners with their \u201cNew York City market studies\u201d think true red blooded Americans want mostly cheap $10.00 flag kits. I am willing to pay $50.00 – $60.00 or more for a good quality outdoor symbol of my county – for which I risked my life to honor in 1968.<\/p>\n

Obviously, Elliott\u2019s isn’t the store for the real thing. Pete’s dragon<\/a> must be setting store policy. (A lot of hot air and usually invisible.)<\/p>\n

You marketers – Yes, I would spend $100 or more for two new flags on my porch for the 4th<\/sup> of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to an Elliott\u2019s Hardware Store here in Dallas, TX on Sunday afternoon to purchase a new outdoor US flag and a Texas state flag. As a proud US Navy veteran I fly them\u00a0almost constantly on my home. Not just for holidays. My wife and I have purchased our\u00a0flags from Elliott\u2019s for 20 years as they were of good quality. Not so anymore. The store was bought out by new owners (the reason they...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[92,49],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","tag-culture","tag-customer-satisfaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}