It's a good time for shoppers to save on hurricane supplies

By: Valerie Boey

Kurt Rogers is saving $20-dollars on plywood. As a buyer he thinks it's quite a bargain, ?I didn't know it was on sale, but I did call around for pricing and they had the best prices around.? 

At Bay City Plywood, there's an abundance of hurricane supplies. Sales clerk Eric Knight says, last year customers cleaned them out, ?We were expecting a big hurricane season and it didn't go through so we overstocked is what we did.? So in order to get rid of the merchandise, the owner discounted plywood, shingles and fencing by 5 to 25-percent, ?We have to lower the prices to get it to sell so we can get more products in to make things keep moving.? That way there will be space for new inventory, ? It's just finding room for it is really a big problem. I work in the back and does all the stocking and stuff for it and it's hard to get room for other stuff that comes in.?

At Home Depot customers have enjoyed periodic sales on certain hurricane supplies. Assistant Manager Sam Steele says, out of a couple of hundred generators, 30 to 40 are left at this St. Pete branch, ?The generators have gone on sale in the past, good savings there always good to have a generator on hand. And as you can see the storm panels here are 25-percent off.? 

It's a great time for shoppers to save. ?So if you're interested in preparing for next year it's a good time to save money and get shacked up.?

It's encouraging to customers like Kurt, ?Stock up on it if you can, if you have the space for it go ahead and put it there.?