this isn't the kind of place you visit new hampshire for but in my world it's the kind of place you know is part of your world, so you check it. truth be told, your humble narrator has spent a few evenings sleeping under bridges after wandering into discount stores for a can of dinner, maybe new socks. cheap is essential to underclass-men whether named "pay less" or "dirt cheap" or "bi-lo" or "thrifty mart" or on urban streets of cheap like canal or 14th or lower broadway. maybe even you once had occasion to cruise similar straits? perhaps your lesser told tales from the 60s when the mind wasn't quite right for awhile, one reason or another. times do wound all heels.
but this isn't my first stop here, as i'm in this part of new england with some frequency. so this job lot is one of my usual stops, today not of necessiry but just now when i passed by i thought of writing about it because it's worth a mention. This is perhaps the best cheap store of them all, only way things could be cheaper would be free, or lifted.
the floor space is considerable, not costco or walmart size but surely close to 20,000 sq ft of rows of everything you can imagine. what i like at places like job lot is these items aren't part of some large corporate purchase order for generic crap, made by a supplier of generic crap. no, there are actually many producers, usually offshore, of good quality items of their kind. the only problem is, the market here is tough and not every product that's offloaded at the dock gets to play on the big grocers' stage. so whoever bought the container load at super discounted price gets to sell it to places like this, if in fact the job lot didn't actually buy the container directly at auction.
that's more or less how it works, and is more or less the reason the products here are superior to whatever walmart sells and usually at a higher price as well. so that's about it, how it works. and i like this place very much for any number of reasons. but really, it needs a photo to show some respect so here for what it's worth is one. should be more... read more