Home Depot Rant

[Robert Allison]

A fan? Not really. I used to watch it when I was in college.

[Robert Allison]

Point taken. I was speaking to Ron through your post. I guess that would make you a cyber medium.

[Oren]

At a local Grainger, the counter person knew I didn't have an account.

"I'm from the Government" Oh!? He looked on the monitor to find an account for the U.S. Park Service. I paid cash using that account.

The guy was nice about it.

Oren

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[Ron]

Just wondering about your use of the word "borg".

In "Star Trek: The Next Generation" the Borg is a species of cyborg that ruthlessly seeks to incorporate all sentient life into itself and their ships are square/cube shaped, just like HD and Lowes.

[Robert Allison]

But you shop at Lowes, so it is obvious that you care nothing about saving money or time. You just want convenience. And that is OK. Just don't complain when you become frustrated due to all the time and money that you have wasted making the borgs your first choice.

As far as your icemaker episode, I once broke the side view mirror off my Chevy truck. On my way home, there was a bag of garbage on the side of our street (litter on our country road). I stopped to pick it up because I have a dumpster and there was a side view mirror laying in the grass by the bag of garbage. I found a great deal that time, but that is not the first place I look when I need an auto part.

If the borgs work for you, then great. They need people like you to keep them in business. People like me are sure not going to do it and I spend over a quarter million dollars a year on supplies.

[Ron]

If I were running a business (or whatever you're doing), I too would have mutiple accounts around town, but that isn't what we are talking about.

And what is this borg thing?

[Robert Allison]

Or: Big Orange Retail Giant.

[Robert Allison]

It is what we in the construction business call the Big Box stores. It originally referred to Home Depot; Big Orange Retail Giant.

I didn't make it up. I just use it.

[HeyBub]

I see you've got three Walmarts in Rochester, 11 in the vicinity.

I suspect the dearth of grocery Walmarts has more to do with union meatcutters than "big players."

You recall the Canada Walmart where workers joined/formed a union in 2004? Walmart closed the store, putting 200 employees out of work. When the meatcutters at a Walmart in Texas joined the union, Walmart fired them all and went to pre-packaged meat.

[HeyBub]

Must have a big family.

I used to buy my jalapeno peppers at Sams. Do you know how long it takes to consume a 55 gallon drum of jalapenos?

[Oren]

How long!?

Oren

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[David Starr]

Provided HD & the other big boxes haven't driven them out of business.

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[Red Green]

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in news:0l6fj.1444$ [e-mail]:

When I lived in the tri-state area it was pronounced as Long Guyland :-)

[willshak]

on 1/3/2008 5:49 PM Red Green said the following:

Lawn guyland .

[JoeSpareBedroom]

Umm....no. It's got to do with the competition. You'll argue about this forever, but there ARE grocery chains that Wal Mart can't compete with.

[HeyBub]

Weeks!

Remember, I'm in Texas. We add jalapenos to corn flakes.

[Oren]

LMAO

Oren

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[Nate Nagel]

There's a couple wally worlds near DC, just not *IN* DC. Probably don't want to deal with all the shrinkage, and I don't blame them. Plus real estate in the city has got to be insane.

nate

[Nate Nagel]

[Social D channeling the Man in Black]

Ah fell in to a burnin' ring of fire...

[/Social D channeling the Man in Black]

nate

[Nate Nagel]

Every time I try to go to HD with a shopping list I remember why I hate HD. There's always at least two items on the list I simply can't find and the help is worthless.

One night last week I got so PO'd that I just left a cart full of plumbing stuff sitting in the middle of the aisle and walked out of the store. I think it was when they were out of buckets when I lost it and resigned myself to postponing my shopping until Saturday morning.

nate