Home Depot--Firewood from Latvia!

tomstrees

tomstrees

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This is weird, the local Home Depot where I work part time sells firewood imported from Latvia!

Both their White birch and other hardwood firewood is from Europe, from Latvia!!! "Eco Forest"

I think this is a link it: https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoForest-White-Birch-Firewood-946039/202279727

www.doitbest.com

Simple Simon Hardwood Firewood, 0.6 cu ft - Do it Best - World's Largest Hardware Store

Premium select hardwood mix firewood lights easily and delivers a long and thorough burn through. Kiln-dried to USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) standards and packaged to a generous 0.6 cu ft well-constructed bundle. The 16 In. logs are pest, mildew, and mold free. Packed in fishnet bags...
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I thought that we actually had some decent firewood in the USA, but maybe Latvia has better wood??
 
I picked up a case of ginger ale from Costco. WHen I got home I read the label and found that it was from New Zealand. The price was in line with other drinks too.

Id really like to have an economist explain these sort of things.

I can sorta understand produce being a 12 month a year season...but firewood and soda?!?!?
 
My bet: They are kowtowing to environmental groups who want green certified wood. There probably isn't a chain of custody in the US to take the material from forest through processing, packaging, and delivery to the store. So it is "more green" to import it from Europe....or at least that is what the sticker says.
 
Tom Dunlap said:
I picked up a case of ginger ale from Costco. WHen I got home I read the label and found that it was from New Zealand. The price was in line with other drinks too.

Id really like to have an economist explain these sort of things.

I can sorta understand produce being a 12 month a year season...but firewood and soda?!?!?
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Simple buy low sell high. Whoever or whatever country is selling the lowest gets the bid from Big Box.
 
At the same time acres of trees in North Carolina are chipped and sent to Europe to be burned in generating plants. In order to meet some convoluted ‘green source’ regulation.

weird
 
flushcut said:
Simple buy low sell high. Whoever or whatever country is selling the lowest gets the bid from Big Box.
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From the picture of the bundle, it looks to be about 1 cubic foot in volume. At the listed price, it brings about $1276 per cord. I would be curious to know what HD pays for it per cord.
 
Tom Dunlap said:
I picked up a case of ginger ale from Costco. WHen I got home I read the label and found that it was from New Zealand. The price was in line with other drinks too.

Id really like to have an economist explain these sort of things.

I can sorta understand produce being a 12 month a year season...but firewood and soda?!?!?
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A local supermarket has Reed's ginger ale on special now under $4 a four pack, great flavor and totally natural. Weirdly my father liked Verner's ginger ale which he had somehow been sold on many years previously. Not a real ginger ale like Reeds. Or make your own, organic ginger is available locally for around $3/# at an Indian grocery.
 
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oldoakman said:
From the picture of the bundle, it looks to be about 1 cubic foot in volume. At the listed price, it brings about $1276 per cord. I would be curious to know what HD pays for it per cord.
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The wood they sell seemed really light, not the birch which is known for quick burning. When customers come in I am sorry to have to sell it to them knowing it won't last long, no oak, or other hardwoods that burn slow are in the bundles. Even grocery stores have locally sourced woods.
 
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