Why can't we get all the Colors??

[Red Kettle Rich]

I was told by my Spanish in-laws that the weber stuff is kind of high end and fashionable.  They are still getting their heads around American backyard style cooking and the neat colors make it more approachable.  Meaning you look you have an awesome looking grill and that alone makes you awesome.

Well they make some awesome colors (are they made in the US?) Why won't they sell them to ME? is the question I ask.

[1buckie]

I was told by my Spanish in-laws that the weber stuff is kind of high end and fashionable.  They are still getting their heads around American backyard style cooking and the neat colors make it more approachable.  Meaning you look you have an awesome looking grill and that alone makes you awesome.

I think people with awesome looking grills are awesome for that fact alone... Isn't that one of the reasons we're here?

I, personally, am not all that awesome looking, so I let the grills take up the slack......

[addicted-to-smoke]

I was told by my Spanish in-laws that the weber stuff is kind of high end and fashionable.  They are still getting their heads around American backyard style cooking and the neat colors make it more approachable.  Meaning you look you have an awesome looking grill and that alone makes you awesome.

Well they make some awesome colors (are they made in the US?) Why won't they sell them to ME? is the question I ask.

It's my amateur position that with multiple SKUs comes sales projections and from sales projections come sales goals and sales goals circle back to expectations of success, a potentially very wiggly concept rife with possible despair or joy.

And then ramp that up on a Home Depot/Lowes storage scale, with related vector of factory capacity in IL.

Somehow, they found a niche with the Ace Hardware red lids, even though there are PLENTY of Ace locations that don't carry or don't promote them. That's why I think the new HD display is a good thing. They don't carry green for example but at least let you know you can get it.

That's the extent of my navel-gazing.

[Hofy]

I have said it before and will say it again, You can not sell it if you do not offer it.  I surprise so many people when I talk about the different colors Weber makes.  They have no clue there are colors other than black. Even most of the Ace Hardware stores around here only have black.

[addicted-to-smoke]

I think our retailing model is part of the problem in the U.S. HD, Lowe's, Wal-Mart, Target for example will never stock anything that doesn't sell in quantity, and the Ace stores are independently owned, so if the owner wants to dedicate a quarter of his floorspace to the Big Green Egg, he can.

If I owned an Ace Hardware store I'd never carry anything black if it was a model the big box stores carry. Why bother, right? Just colors.

There aren't really any specialty "grilling" stores, just whatever the hardware or outdoor/landscaping store might offer.

[Josh G]

You better hope that those Weber Qs do well.  If those colors strike out and don't sell, I doubt we will see bright new colors in the kettles.