Menards and Masterforce Tools

[sparky 1971]

Love Menards but their Covid policy really pissed me off. Here in central Ohio they had a rule that people under 16 yrs of age could not enter at all. Not even with a parent. The most insane thing I've ever seen. It took me over a year to set foot back into a Menards store.

Menards was the first to have a mask policy here, I think every other store in the area followed suit. And, they had the nobody under 16 policy in Iowa too, so it was probably a company wide decision. Even when the mask hysteria was over for customers, employees had to wear one which I found ridiculous. They even hired rental cops to stand at the door to enforce the masks. I just made sure to not wear a mask into the store, but would pull it out of my back pocket and put it on as soon as I was told, I didn't want to get a criminal trespass warning to stay away from my favorite store. My mask was a really old stained up rag that I put on cowboy bank robber style. It was clean, but there was no way the stains would come out and that's the way I wanted it. It looked like there were more germs on it than it the rest of the store combined.

 

[finn]

I appreciated their mask policy, being a survivor of Covid, which I think I got at the Grand National Roadster show during the early phases of the pandemic.

I don’t ever want to go through that experience again.

 

[matthew]

The ad price clearly states “after $x.** rebate”, and also shows the price before rebate, in relatively large print, so I don’t see what the issue is.

When I search their website, the search results say 15.10. When I go to the product page it tells me the price is actually 16.97.

I will grant you, it’s an emotional response. But people make decisions with emotion, then rationalize. It makes me feel like I’ve been tricked. I live a few hours drive from the nearest store. So I don’t and can’t go regularly, and can’t justify mailing in for odds and ends. I don’t mind paying the price, but I don’t want to walk out feeling I’ve gotten less than promised. Good marketing should leave me feeling quite the opposite.