Bad enough that the manager got snarky too

[sirwired]

A hardware store I used to go to (now sadly out of business) simply had a big wooden board behind each register with a couple of inches of every type of otherwise-unmarked chain, rope, tube, etc., the store sold. (Maybe 60 types or so...) (For the marked stuff, like PVC pipe, they just looked up the SKU in a book.) And printed underneath each sample was the SKU. Easy as pie. There was a second board for common types of moulding. I can't imagine why stores don't do this any more.

[Jester]

I can't imagine why stores don't do this any more.

*Ahem* "If it makes sense, it's not allowed."

[PastryGal]

A hardware store I used to go to (now sadly out of business) simply had a big wooden board behind each register with a couple of inches of every type of otherwise-unmarked chain, rope, tube, etc., the store sold. (Maybe 60 types or so...) (For the marked stuff, like PVC pipe, they just looked up the SKU in a book.) And printed underneath each sample was the SKU. Easy as pie. There was a second board for common types of moulding. I can't imagine why stores don't do this any more.

no room at the cash's at my store for boards with stuff on them. we have a book with sku's in it, and the only samples in it are the clothes lines. the cash's are 2 together in a kiosk kinda way with no wall behind us.

[wolfie]

To further complicate things, while most tubing goes by the ID, and some (structural) goes by the OD, with iron pipe there is NO dimension that matches the nominal size. How is this?

Way back, the nominal size of iron pipe was the ID, and it had a certain wall thickness (based on the pressure it needed to handle, and the strength of the material). The threaded fittings were made based on the resulting OD. Time passed, and material quality improved. A thinner wall could now handle the same pressure (and save material, so be cheaper to make). They couldn't change the OD, because that would mean old fittings would no longer be compatible with new pipe, and vice versa, so they increased the ID. Since the nominal size was based on the "old tech" ID, that resulted in no match of dimension to nominal size.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

All of that over 50p. Wow. Seriously just... UGH! I've gone to stores where I know I was supposed to get something for cheaper but when it ends up being such a small amount of money I don't bother with it. 50p would not be worth getting my blood pressure up, getting all riled, and probably making a big asstwat out of myself in the middle of a store.

Don't feel bad. It really says a lot about what kind of person he (and his lady twatwaffle) is. His ego is so precious and fragile that he has to stoke it by harassing people who can't fight back.

[sirwired]

How much would anyone like to wager this tool is ALSO one of those clowns that tear open an eighty-cent bag that is a 3-pack of some obscure fastener, remove one, steal it, and leave the bag behind?