I've finished my 3017 mission, my shave den is bare.
I'm down to the last inch of a single stick of Arko. It's time to stock up on some staples that I've been missing terribly. When I went looking at my normal web stores, nobody had all of the products I wanted. These were pretty common items. I'd say they were shave den staples. The annoying thing about that is shipping; if nobody has everything you want, you can't meet the free shipping minimum, and you have to pay shipping from two different companies. Not exactly a crisis, but annoying nevertheless. Does this happen to anybody else or am I just looking for weird stuff?
I'm not knocking these stores BTW, I'm grateful that they exist, and I enjoy giving them my money! I spent the first 6 years of my career doing inventory management consulting to Fortune 500 companies so I know the challenges of balancing stock availability vs inventory carry costs. It ain't easy!
Only one place had everything I wanted, and I only just learned about it yesterday on the forum whilst reading Marco's article about Mogno (cool history and an intriguing soap BTW). It's a Spanish store named Gifts and Care. I'd greatly prefer to keep my order in CONUS, but I'm tempted to buy from G&C for the first time. Does anybody have experience with them? The shipping costs are pretty reasonable considering how far it's going.
At any rate, here is my shopping list, make of it what you will. I wonder if these web stores realize how much it costs them to be out of stock on an item. I've probably abandoned a dozen $60+ orders over the years because stores were missing so many things that I wanted. Green means they had it. Red means it was out of stock, and a "-" means it's not stocked at all.
I'm down to the last inch of a single stick of Arko. It's time to stock up on some staples that I've been missing terribly. When I went looking at my normal web stores, nobody had all of the products I wanted. These were pretty common items. I'd say they were shave den staples. The annoying thing about that is shipping; if nobody has everything you want, you can't meet the free shipping minimum, and you have to pay shipping from two different companies. Not exactly a crisis, but annoying nevertheless. Does this happen to anybody else or am I just looking for weird stuff?
I'm not knocking these stores BTW, I'm grateful that they exist, and I enjoy giving them my money! I spent the first 6 years of my career doing inventory management consulting to Fortune 500 companies so I know the challenges of balancing stock availability vs inventory carry costs. It ain't easy!
Only one place had everything I wanted, and I only just learned about it yesterday on the forum whilst reading Marco's article about Mogno (cool history and an intriguing soap BTW). It's a Spanish store named Gifts and Care. I'd greatly prefer to keep my order in CONUS, but I'm tempted to buy from G&C for the first time. Does anybody have experience with them? The shipping costs are pretty reasonable considering how far it's going.
At any rate, here is my shopping list, make of it what you will. I wonder if these web stores realize how much it costs them to be out of stock on an item. I've probably abandoned a dozen $60+ orders over the years because stores were missing so many things that I wanted. Green means they had it. Red means it was out of stock, and a "-" means it's not stocked at all.
