The other day SWMBO says to me "I'd like those Bordeaux colored shutters that I saw at Lowes."
So I take the new shutters over to the paint counter and asked for a quart of matching paint for the trim. The guy in the red vest tries to find the color Bordeaux in his computer. No go. He tries a couple of paint chips but nothing matches. He tries to hold the 48" shutters up to the little tiny color matching computer lens - the resulting formula is not even close. "Sorry, I don't think I can match it."
I drive down the road to a local paint store and bring the shutters in. The guy behind the counter grabs a keychain full of little miniature shutters and finds one that's fairly close. "Let's start with this and we'll tweak it from there." He mixes the formula found on the back of the mini-shutter, brings it over and declares it "too purple". A couple of drops of this and that and he hits it perfect on the next try.
When I told him what happened at Lowes he said the computers don't work very well with dark colors and the guys behind the counter are too lazy to try and match the paint manually. Guess where I'm going the next time I need paint?