To think that £5 per hose is a fair offer...

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to B&Q and Homebase and the rest of my local garden suppliers given that a hosepipe ban will shortly be in force in my area so, to all intents and purposes, there's no point in them cluttering up their shelves with garden hoses that nobody is allowed to use.
What do you think? Perhaps I'm being too generous?

Why waste £5 on something you can't use?

I don't imagine B&Q not having adequate warehouse space to keep the stock until next summer TBH.

Well, I could make a tidy profit selling them in areas without a hosepipe ban... seriously... £40 for a hose and reel and they've got an aisle and three huge displays in my local B&q

But surely Homebase and B&Q can do that themselves. They have stores in the areas where there are no hose pipe bans - like here!!!!!

YABU. Better them gathering dust in a warehouse than selling them at a loss. Your offer needs to beat cost price before they would even consider it. So for a £40 hose which they are desperate to sell ( they may well not be bothered either way) you need to be offering £20 or so.

bigbluebus - that's my thought! surely they could do that - but they're not! I'm in a hosepipe ban area and the stores are chocker with hoses.
So who's more stupid. Them for taking up sales space with a product which technically, people shouldn't have much use for - or people for buying them.
Obviously they've overbought and overstocked and couldn't have predicted the hospepipe ban so eventually they will need to sell them cheap to get the selling space back - after all, the Welsh and Scots can't buy ALL the hoses meant for the south east.
Shakirasma -B&Q don't just have stacks of empty warehouses where they can store unsold stock - that costs money! Stuff comes straight from supplier to stores/central distribution - if it doesn't sell it's got to go somehow.
Hose without a reel costs £10-15 so I reckon £20 is probably twice as much as B&q pay.
In three months time they'll be biting my hand off.
If you had 20 B& Q outlest within 20 miles of me (easily), each with 50 hoses in stock - that's the best part of £40k of stock so I think they would be bother if it doesn't sell!
Multiply x 2 for Homebase + aRGOS + wICKES + ALL the independents - that's a hell of a lot of worthless rubber tubing sitting around.
Still, I'm not really bothered - it probably is unreasonable - that's one for the Apprentice candidates

Yes but they can just take them out of the stores with the hosepipebans and send them to their branches that don't have hosepipe bans.

The problem of course is, those places that don't have hosepipe bans because it rains a hell of a lot don't need hosepipes their either.

Unless its for the one day of the year that they will have sunshine but that's unlikely isn't it.

We've got the largest stockpile of de-icer you've ever seen, taking up all our stock room, but they won't sell it off cheap!

I suspect that the stores which don't have hosepipe bans are also already full of hoses (needed or not )
From the B&Qs I've been in, they seem to work on uniform stock items and stock levels, relative to the type of store. So, I reckon if they've got stores in hospepipe ban areas full of hoses - it doesn't mean the other stores haven't got hoses in them - more likely they have similar amounts of hoses in all stores across the UK.
Add in the transport costs to move them about, time to work it all out etc - why not just sell 'em off cheap?
Anyway, it's not going to happen, and I'm bored with being unreasonable now.