# Incredibly common products which the store clerk never heard of **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 23, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225 "2021-09-23T21:29:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/423 "2022-01-27T21:49:41Z")
> [@Pabitel](#): > > I just bought a weed whip here in Vermont last spring. They’re still around Oh, yeah. Most of those pictures in my link go to sites currently selling them. > [@Pabitel](#): > > finding the bin marked turnips, at all three stores, full of rutabagas. Huh. What I sell at farmers’ market is definitely turnips. If you’ve got enough ground to need a weed whip, you could grow your own; they’re generally pretty easy to grow. That won’t help you much if you want to eat them right now, of course. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/424 "2022-01-27T22:00:33Z")
The nice young man working customer service at Home Depo had never heard of Loctite. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/425 "2022-01-27T23:38:15Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > “What’s a ‘currier’?” Not sure, but I’ll bet Ives knows. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/426 "2022-01-28T02:12:02Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > At Lowes, the employee in the lumber dept. didn’t know what beadboard is. Yikes ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/427 "2022-01-28T04:39:41Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > At Lowes, the employee in the lumber dept. didn’t know what beadboard is. I had a student that kept eliciting that “can’t fix stupid” quote from her teachers, and none of us were surprised when she dropped out. Imagine my non-shock to run into her working at a Home Depot. So those aren’t tiny Bob Vilas in the orange aprons… > [@DCnDC](#): > > Man, I used to do some truly horrific stuff when I had that [“currier”] job… I knew I had to make a certain number of deliveries a day to make what I needed, and I just didn’t care about pissing off strangers. I double-parked, I parked in alleys, I parked in loading zones, I parked in driveways; more than once I literally just got out of the car in the middle of traffic and ran into a building to drop off a package… Ooh, I think I found my post-retirement calling! Love to drive? _Check._ Love to drive too fast? _Yes, PLEASE!_ Willing to not slow down so I make impromptu lane changes and cut off other drivers? _Check._ Care if “Building Security Sorta-Cops” yell at me? _Nope._ Care if rando Karens in Volvo SUVs yell at me? _Nooope!_ Will my wife and family testify that I can be a jerk? _Check, check and checkmate. When do I start?_ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/428 "2022-01-28T05:03:29Z")
‘Wayne’s Coating? Paint aisle!’ ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/429 "2022-01-28T05:09:39Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > “What’s a ‘currier’?” Someone who grooms horses. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/430 "2022-01-28T13:26:49Z")
I’ve worked in construction, mostly framing and exterior trim. I’ve also done a ton of remodeling. I’ve never heard the term beadboard. Had no idea what it is. Wonder if it’s a reginal thing. ---
**Author:** ![cytop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f17d59/32.png) [@cytop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cytop)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/431 "2022-01-28T14:01:51Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > “What’s a ‘currier’?” Leather worker … > **[Currier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currier)** > > A currier is a specialist in the leather-processing trade. After the tanning process, the currier applies techniques of dressing, finishing and colouring to a tanned hide to make it strong, flexible and waterproof. > The leather is stretched and burnished to produce a uniform thickness and suppleness, and dyeing and other chemical finishes give the leather its desired colour. > After currying, the leather is then ready to pass to the fashioning trades such as saddlery, bridlery, shoemaking or glovem... ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/432 "2022-01-28T14:30:44Z")
Yeah, never heard of beadboard. Googling a picture, I’ve seen it I suppose. Home Depot is very hit and miss on the knowledge of employees. Sometimes they know exactly where every single thing in the store is. Sometimes they know nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/433 "2022-01-28T15:20:36Z")
My wife was a “floor associate” at Home Depot when she had never lived in anything except employer or school provided housing her entire life. She lived in military or civilian government apartments, then a university dorm, then her work unit housing (effectively another dorm) and then an RA room in a dorm in grad school. She had literally never held so much as a hammer or screwdriver in her life. Not only would she now know what bead board was (and 30 years later she still doesn’t) she would have had only the vaguest idea of what most common hardware products are called. Things like Allen Wrench, Phillips Head, Flat Head, Ball & Peen, Extension Ladder, Step Ladder would all have been Greek to her (Her English was very, very, good, if you wanted to talk about literature from the 15th to the 19th centuries, or some topics in social sciences, economics, politics, criminal justice, etc.) But Home Depot didn’t care. This was 30+ years ago. There was no desperate labor shortage. She sucked at her job, but only she seemed to care. Fortunately she was only there for a few months. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/434 "2022-01-28T15:40:17Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > The nice young man working customer service at Home Depo had never heard of Loctite. [Loctite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loctite) is a brand name. They make a range of different products including glue, cleaning fluid, valves and pumps. If you just ask for ‘Loctite’ I don’t blame him for not knowing what you mean. Unless you’re thinking of a different Loctite. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/435 "2022-01-28T15:42:21Z")
Oh, don’t be ridiculous. Would you say that if someone didn’t know what a “Kleenex” was? ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/436 "2022-01-28T15:57:07Z")
Um, I don’t know what beadboard is. (Neither does my autocorrect, which changed it to headboard.) Anybody want to bother to define it? ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/437 "2022-01-28T15:57:50Z")
I think that’s a little different- although Kimberly-Clark\* sells many different products, as far as I can tell the Kleenex brand in the US is restricted to tissues and disposable hand towels ( introduced in 2010) while all of [Loctite’s](https://www.loctiteproducts.com/en/products.html) products are sold under that name. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/438 "2022-01-28T15:58:40Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Um, I don’t know what beadboard is. (Neither does my autocorrect, which changed it to headboard.) Anybody want to bother to define it? [Beadboard](https://americanbeadboard.com/shop/?v=893f26889d1e&matchtype=e&network=o&device=c&keyword=Beadboard%20Panels&campaign=395884238&adgroup=1335907120676757&msclkid=036c7277e02c1adaa3a41383f2582c0b&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Search%20%3E%20Beadboard%20%5BDesktop%5D&utm_term=Beadboard%20Panels&utm_content=Beadboard%20Panels) (I used to work in a lumber yard.) ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/439 "2022-01-28T15:59:33Z")
Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/440 "2022-01-28T15:59:34Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > > > The nice young man working customer service at Home Depo had never heard of Loctite. > > [Loctite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loctite) is a brand name. They make a range of different products including glue, cleaning fluid, valves and pumps. If you just ask for ‘Loctite’ I don’t blame him for not knowing what you mean. > > Unless you’re thinking of a different Loctite. In my experience, Loctite is best known as a threadlocker, and its name is almost used generically to refer to the type of product. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/441 "2022-01-28T16:02:39Z")
It’s a type of [paneling.](https://www.homedepot.com/p/DPI-DECORATIVE-PANELS-INTERNATIONAL-10-67-sq-ft-3-16-in-x-48-in-x-32-in-EZ-Paintable-Bead-Wainscot-Hardboard-Panel-HD14732481/311042686?source=shoppingads&locale=en-US). I specifically chose a Home Depot link because the descriptions do not always use “beadboard” - this one says " Paintable Bead Wainscot Hardboard Panel", while others just say “wainscot” or “decorative panels”. ---
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> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > [Loctite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loctite) is a brand name. They make a range of different products including glue, cleaning fluid, valves and pumps. My gf runs into this with Gore. She does advertising work for the company. Everyone seems to know Gore-Tex, their line of waterproof clothing, but she deals strictly with their medical division. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225.md?page=23)