So I just got back from a Menards run and I've noticed something fascinating:
Menards has always had a lot of store brands. But they're really pushing a new food brand called Marcella. Stuff like coffee, jams and jellies, prepared foods, sodas, etc. A lot of it is fairly unique - I bought a maraschino cherry cola on a whim and it was pretty great!
The weird part? They're pricing this in-house stuff higher than name brands. The soda was a tad more expensive than the Sprecher's next to it!
@TechConnectify I thought Menards was a hardware store (Canadian, never been there)
For American chains I'm used to Lowe's and Home Depot which are pretty similar. Is Menards more like Canadian Tire which is technically a hardware store but sells a bit of everything?
@arstechnica if he's just taking the hardware and moving it to other companies, add it to the pile of reasons the board should fire Musk alongside everything else he's done.
Selling the GPUs to his other ventures though would probably be OK. It might even give a nice tax benefit by letting the company write down depreciation "losses" on otherwise perfectly good graphics cards. I somehow doubt he's being all that clever in his self-dealing though.
