Buying kitchen cabinets just because the price is going to go up by a certain date is a bad idea. The bigger the sale, the bigger the problem caused by that sale.
Pushing customers to purchase furniture before considering all options and coordinating renovations and choices leads to poor decisions.
Order errors increase when salespeople finish many sales before the deadline. These errors often wreak havoc on mods. In addition, the high volume of orders that cabinet manufacturers process often compromises the quality of the cabinets and increases the cost of damages.
Logistics companies handle warehousing and final delivery of cabinets to customers. With the flood of cabinet deliveries, mistakes and losses also increase. Reordering all the mistakes and damage caused by selling kitchen cabinets makes the reordering process stressful for everyone in the supply chain.
Cupboard distributors who put their customers’ best interests first do not promote sales..
Main Line Kitchen Design never advertises sales. To prevent hasty decisions and magnify the confusion caused by the sale, we will honor the manufacturer’s sale price for designs initiated during the actual sale up to one month later. With this model, you will lose less than dealing with all the problems caused by rush orders.
Home improvement stores like The Home Depot and Lowes don’t realize that by offering limited-time discounts on kitchen cabinets, you actually have more to lose than you gain.
Every few years, someone at Home Depot Corporate decides they want to boost Home Depot’s stock price. They do this by boosting their financial quarter sales with sales of big-ticket items such as cabinets.
Selling these ‘loss leaders’, that is, selling cabinets below the price at which they make a profit, drives the company’s bottom line. They direct customers to their stores by other products such as appliances, flooring, and fixtures. And customers who purchase furniture during these promotions are served terrible service. Home improvement designers are generally the least experienced in the industry and are therefore most likely to make mistakes.
Lowes and Home Depot executives know the retail business, but they don’t understand the real problem with kitchen cabinets. Ironically, these sales aimed at increasing revenue and brand loyalty actually wreak havoc on the home improvement supply chain and ultimately reduce customer satisfaction.
Inexperienced kitchen cabinet dealers sometimes worry about competing with these artificial home improvement sales. More seasoned pros just shake their heads because they know these sales helped destroy home improvement kitchen divisions over the past decade.
Be warned, the lure of the seemingly good value generally increases the cost and time required for renovations. . .
Buyer Beware! And of course . . .
Bon appetit!
Why you shouldn’t buy your kitchen at Lowes or Home Depot ⋆ (mainlinekitchendesign.com)
