I have been looking for a tool that crimps eyelets for a new sulfuric stripping cell I designed. I have been having the hardest time finding one that works for 1/4 eyelets. Just 20 years ago you would be able to walk into an Ace Hardware and purchase 3-4 different types of die sets to do exactly this, now the choices are reduced to one.
Walmart, Target and Walgreens all used to carry the tool to crimp 1/4 eyelets, but now, not only do they not carry these, but they don't even sell them on their website.
You know the economy is doing bad when you cannot purchase, even the most simple tools locally.
So, my indication that the economy is doing bad is when you walk into a Walmart, and their tool section has been reduced from 4-5 isles, down to half of one side of one isle. When you realize that Walmart is making the change from selling mostly non consumable items, to consumable grocery items. When they switch from selling things people don't have to have, to things people have to have just to live. As people stop purchased goods, they will still continue to purchase food.
You can tell the economy is doing bad when discount retailers stop carrying common items.
Scott
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