These professionals used to have to run around picking up supplies at hardware stores and cooperatives, or though catalogs and sales brochures. Lesco's service centers changed all that. These cavernous centers are filled with fertilizer sacks, and lawnmowers, and advice. These centers are their customers' tool shed. Lesco also has 75 trucks that act as roving stores on wheels.
Fertilizer is fertilizer, regardless of the brand name.
There is little brand loyalty in this commodity market. The article is an adaptation of an upcoming book in which the author writes about the power of publicity over truth. The article is about the still well accepted idea that electric power lines cause cancer, in spite of every investigation and research to the contrary. For students this article is a good lesson in not using anecdotes to make a generalization about a whole population. Ask the class what are the business, consumer and economic affects of making decisions using anecdotes instead of facts.