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Blast from the past
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Quite_Exasperated
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Funny, I was thinking of starting this same thread...I have WW primers at $18.25 a box and 1lb Accurate #5 at $14.75 from Riley’s..and I just finished a pound of WW powder in the $12 range..
Mark from MA
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The old spags 1.99 sluggers. When my dad couldn't shoot anymore he brought over all his 12ga slugs. Found a few boxes like that myself. He used to buy 5-10 boxes for every season and use 2-3 actual slugs per year, and maybe a few for check shots before the season. Needless to say he had a shit ton after 30 years of hunting.
oldguy68
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Great memories of going there.
I remember buying a Mikita 9 volt cordless drill kit there for $95.00.
Used to go there for Herman Survivor work boots when they were actually decent boots.
Their Carhartt clothing section was large as well.
Spags "No bags" or credit cards!
I remember buying a Mikita 9 volt cordless drill kit there for $95.00.
Used to go there for Herman Survivor work boots when they were actually decent boots.
Their Carhartt clothing section was large as well.
Spags "No bags" or credit cards!
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Spags was awesome. Free coffee.
Spags was great. Free tomato plants every spring. Every funeral in Shrewsburry received some sort of support from Spags. Employees were treated like family as long as the founder was alive. I think there is a video
View: https://youtu.be/aAwrReBS0t0
View: https://youtu.be/aAwrReBS0t0
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No longer there. Used to be located right off route 9 on the Shrewsbury/Worcester line. There's now a Whole Foods in the place where it used to stand.
Used to live in Waltham as a kid. We'd see the promotional search lights and beg my father to drive and find them. Surprisingly, he did that a few times. One of those times, we ended up at Spags. Must've been 30 miles or so. Fond memories from my childhood...
Enzo
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Which is ironic......
Everybody new about Spags, even if you never went there, tons of commercials on tv and radio. I went there once, just because of all the hype.
A great store, everything under the sun, good prices, definitely a retail Hall of Fame candidate!
Dennis in MA
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Yeah. It's hard in retail to be that sort of guy anymore. Spags. Benny's. Places like that. I HATED Benny's. Because it just looked like. . . . 1962 in there. But dammit if they were never out of stock of anything they were in stock of (you know what I mean) and you'd find stuff there that you couldn't find elsewhere and if you didn't know where to buy something, you learned ALWAYS to start at Benny's.
Once the ownership changed generations, they realized that no one could run it like that anymore AND compete with the big retailers. So they closed it down.
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Didn't Spag sell to Building 19?? THAT was an awful store. 40 years of shopping there I never liked it. Except for the occasional rug that my wife needed in the 90's and early 2000's, I never found anything worth buying there. My brother used to haunt the place for scratch-and-dent stereo equipment. All I ever found was stereo equipment at 95% of retail that someone dropped off the back of a truck. LOL
I try to favor the small guy just because they tend to have just what I need and will help me grab it while I'm in there. Anything paint related, I rush to teh nearest Ben Moore dealer. In Taunton, that's Manny's. They bend over backwards to help you there. Very Spags/Benny's like. But not too many of even THOSE places around anymore.
Once the ownership changed generations, they realized that no one could run it like that anymore AND compete with the big retailers. So they closed it down.
. Didn't Spag sell to Building 19?? THAT was an awful store. 40 years of shopping there I never liked it. Except for the occasional rug that my wife needed in the 90's and early 2000's, I never found anything worth buying there. My brother used to haunt the place for scratch-and-dent stereo equipment. All I ever found was stereo equipment at 95% of retail that someone dropped off the back of a truck. LOL
I try to favor the small guy just because they tend to have just what I need and will help me grab it while I'm in there. Anything paint related, I rush to teh nearest Ben Moore dealer. In Taunton, that's Manny's. They bend over backwards to help you there. Very Spags/Benny's like. But not too many of even THOSE places around anymore.
Spags was the original big box hardware store......Packed to the ceiling with everything you could imagine.
Went there a lot in the 1970's and 1980's. GREAT PLACE!
Have a walnut tree growing in my backyard that I bought there around 1980.
Went there a lot in the 1970's and 1980's. GREAT PLACE!
Have a walnut tree growing in my backyard that I bought there around 1980.
richc
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Spags was cool!
I remember years ago a TV infomercial with this weirdo selling junk, I think from NH. He may have worn balloons on his head and maybe had a horn or something to make noise.
Anyone remember this?
I remember years ago a TV infomercial with this weirdo selling junk, I think from NH. He may have worn balloons on his head and maybe had a horn or something to make noise.
Anyone remember this?
Dollar Bill's?
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