Not sure what’s planned to go in the other half yet, I was in kind of a rush to get home for a meeting and forgot to look on my way out. If you check out the FB page you can see the new wall that’s on the left when you walk through the doors, it basically goes to the back of the store but gets a little wider right before the bathroom. Although my brain knows retail is hard right now and that lease is probably pricey, that did hurt my heart to see it so much smaller with so much less stuff 
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That’s where I went. I thought maybe they were redecorating, but no, the store is small now.
As for Smartpak, I too have a sheet with the 10 year guarantee. It has a very small hole in it and is only 3 years old. I was thinking of replacing it closer to year 9 if it holds up that long.
I will really be bummed to lose those SmartPak ultimate turnouts. I only turned mine in once for a gelding who is TOUGH on blankets. I think they are better than Rambos for half the price.
Also, same experience at Dover tent sale - really disappointing. Are we doing this to ourselves? We shopped Dover and Smartpak, killed the local independent tack shops, and in time we’ll have neither?
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regarding Smartpak supplements, evidently they recently changed the adhesive strips used to seal the packets as this last shipment we got for Lexie to remove the cover strip is a task, it is as though the strip was fused wielded to seal the pack. Before the cover strip was easy to remove.
Also we recently had our two year old horse (Fig) colic, he was on the Smartpak colic coverage, they paid fully in a timely manor for his colic surgery (nearly $13,000). He has about six more weeks of confinement before he can go back to work. He has been pretty good about this, entertainment has been supplied by the group of crows that have taken up the task of giving him something to watch.
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I find this to be a random occurrence from time to time.
One month will be like the strip is super glued on the cells, then a month of way too easy to peel strip from the cells, some months of ‘normal’ to remove strip from the cells - then start the cycle over again.
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thanks for the comment, we have been using several of their products for the last five years with this last shipment being like you said super glued tight
I can count myself as having been fortunate to not have had to endure this before
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