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Thread Number: 10249
Inglis, What no more Ropers |
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| Post# 188450 2/4/2007 at 11:52 (6,289 days old) by sillysuds (new jersey) | ||
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Is Whirlpool still making Roper? in Best Buy they had Inglis but no Ropers. | ||
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Post# 188454 , Reply# 1 2/4/2007 at 12:20 (6,289 days old) by coldspot66  (Plymouth, Mass) |
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I think you can still find Roper at Lowe's. All the same anyway!!! | ||
| Post# 188678 , Reply# 2 2/5/2007 at 12:44 (6,288 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia) | ||
Contract Sales!
Roper & Estate brands have been moved over to contract sales. Most contract sales are to large property management organizations. History: Roper was one of the first stoves ever made. Estate was the brand of stoves, a/c's made by RCA Victor. Both later aquired by Whirlpool, under an agreement with RCA Victor, Whirlpool would blend these products thus in the end RCA Victor would be out of the appliance business. So during the agreement period everything was RCA Whirlpool! In Canada, during this period not only did they have Inglis, they had "Victor" appliances under the same US agreement with RCA Victor. | ||
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Post# 188722 , Reply# 3 2/5/2007 at 15:30 (6,288 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Buy an engineering technology, then wipe it out. 
Looks like wiping out competing brands and gobbling up market-share is an age-old method. If it all wasn't an issue of ego and "my DNA is better than your DNA" (Despite all evidence to the contrary) I would have loved to see Maytag Dependable Care enginering continue, even with a damned Whirlpool badge, or better yet keep it as a Sears Kenmore. Proving once again that "IF" (as in "IF ONLY")is the biggest word in the English language. *SIGH* | ||
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Post# 188730 , Reply# 4 2/5/2007 at 16:42 (6,288 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Post# 188750 , Reply# 6 2/5/2007 at 19:02 (6,288 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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During most of the 1970s and into the 1st half of the 1980s, G&S appliances were the brand many tract home builders put in around Houston and the variouos price ranges of homes offered various levels of the G&S price levels. The dishwashers were very cheapened D&M versoins and were "glitzy" because 99% of the time the basic dishawsher had pots/pans (just like our 1959 waste king--a wash & 2 rinses and stopped); light wash, normal wash, and sani-rinse wash cycle. Looked very upscale (ha ha ha). Higher expensive homes would have a dishwasher with more features, self-cleaning wall ovens (llokied like Magic Chef) and 36" cook tops with a griddle in the middle.
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Post# 188837 , Reply# 8 2/6/2007 at 04:48 (6,288 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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I have seen Ingis marked washers at Best Buy. | ||
| Post# 188857 , Reply# 9 2/6/2007 at 07:42 (6,288 days old) by sillysuds (new jersey) | ||
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I, know the salemen told me that the Inglis is made for Best Buy stores. | ||
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