Easy to eat as you walk about the store, going shopping. plus Walmart has these small brown paper bags of baked potato wedges for a price like $1.05, plus the 9% NH prepared food tax. On the other hand, if you buy your paint, across the road at Walmart, it still costs less and it's Glidden paint, the 2nd biggest paint maker in the country, and is excellent paint. that's like a big discount, and there's lots of Mass license plates parked at Lowe's on the weekends plus on weekdays, too? The Mass sales tax is a sales and use tax, and Mass residents are supposedly supposed to still pay their 6.25% tax to Mass on items purchased in New Hampshire, but probably Mass has no way to really collect it, so it goes unpaid?ฤก0% & 6.25% = 16.25%. On top of the 10% discount, veterans from Massachusetts who buy at the Gilford Lowe's also save from having to pay the 6.25% Mass sales tax, so that makes it a double-discount for Mass veterans. I had one guy about my age, in the line behind me, actually say " no kidding, is that right, you know I got a very high number myself but I always keep that quiet". ![]() And, that leads to different varied reactions from surrounding people, at the time. sorry, but I already got my discount, back on April fool's day, 1970. ![]() So's now whenever I get asked at the Gilford Lowe's about their ten percent military discount offer. Then, one time it dawned on me, that I basically received my 10% discount in advance, back on April 1, 1970, when I first learned that my Vietnam draft lottery number was 302, and everyone with 180 and higher was most likely exempt from serving, and fighting in Vietnam. So, the first few times going through this, I was a little bit miffed since I have no military service. When shopping at the Lowe's in Gilford, it is standard procedure to be offered a 10% military discount when paying at one of the check-outs.
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