We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot. At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At Home Depot you turn right.
UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...
Where is it at? Haven't seen anything about it until now.
Dave
Here's some fun. Go into one of these places and ask the sales person to give you a better price on an item. The look of confusion on their faces is intriguing.
I saw this episode, too!
Pretty soon a guy with a Lowes nametag comes out and asks if the nice man wants any help!
Only on TV! It's completely unbelievable!
watson - who only wishes that real life was just like TV.
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That will make it very convenient, you will be able to tell which one you are in. I used to live in the Northern VA suburbs of DC and there were 5 HDs within 5 miles of my house (some were Hechingers), and 5 different floor plans. Very confusing. And you still couldn't get informed help. At least, I had 3 good wood dealers nearby; here in NC it is 30 miles to get good wood at a good price.
Steve
Yeah, we had a Lowes open up here last fall, right behind the orange Borg. As soon as they opened HD laid off about half their employees. You go into Lowes and there are salespeople crawling the halls, mostly in pairs talking to each other. It's the same stuff at the same prices in a newer store with (unbelievably enough) worse service. Yowsa!
Tim Douglass
Must be red state/blue state ... it's just the opposite down heah.
BTW, don't try talking to that friendly looking 5' 4" gentleman/lady always standing in the same spot just past the entrance door ... he/she's a cardboard cutout.
Well, 'sconsin is juuuuuuuust barely whatever color Democrat is, so I'm not sure that makes a difference. Almost at the point where if the invalid votes in Milwaukee hadn't been cast, it might have gone the other way.
Right around 60th and Capital. I plan on stopping by soon. The last time I was at HD I said in my loudest voice to one of the floor managers "I will never shop here again!" I suspect Lowe's will reach that point after two or three visits.
dave
Um. OK, so I should take Smith _and_ Wesson with me I assume? Or has that area improved in the last, say, 10 years?
You may be more tolerant than I. I only will go into my local-ish HD (out on Hwy 83 and I-94) if, and only if, the hardware store at the bottom of HD's hill doesn't have what I want. So I pay 5 bucks more per trip or something - but they know what I'm talking about when I ask for or about something.
Dave Hinz
Consider yourself lucky. In our Home Depot, depending on where you park, you can access the tools from the right or left.
SH - The "decisions, decisions" woodworker
Actually, they (HD) lay different ones out as mirror images for some reason I don't fathom...the two in Konxville, TN, are mirror images of each other...of course, one is west, the other east--maybe that's it.. :)
Is there another entrance?
I talk to that lady in the Sugarland SW Freeway store on occasion. This one is so realistic that she actually walks and talks. However her standard answer is to continue looking where you were looking if you are having a hard time finding something. Soooo although the model in the Sugarland store is sophisticated enough that she does walk and talk she cannot think or give more than one answer to multiple questions. She must have been a doctor or weather forecaster model in a previous job function as she is never right the first time she answers.
On Friday 28 Jan 2005 7:55 pm, Tom Watson scribbled:
Can be. SOP is: I walk into my Home Hardware quasi borg, say hi to some of the nice staff. Start looking for stuff. Nice guy or gal comes to me and says: "Can I help you Luigi?"
"I'm looking for a certain particular blurfl, can't seem to find it. Do you have any?" says I. Answer is: (a) "I think we have some in aisle XX, let's go check." or (b) "I don't think so, but I think Crappy Tire/Gordy/Kilrich might have it." or (c) "I don't know, but [insert name of other staff] might know. Hey [name of other staff]! Do you know where the blurfls are?" or (d) "We don't have any, but how about using a whatchamacallit instead?" or (e) "We could bring it in/We can't bring them in anymore."
Like JOAT says, life is good.
On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 4:07 am, Unisaw A100 scribbled:
You mean this one?
We have several here in the city, all of them except one the tool department is on the right. I stopped in the mirrored Lowes one day and walked to the back and pushed the door to the womens restroom open and the women employee said "this Lowes is opposite from the rest" so she seemed used to other people doing the same thing. The Lowes around here have terrible lumber, takes me forever to dig through the pile for a straight piece. All of them are like that too so when I sent a note to them on their web site they had the manager of the closest store to me call and apologize, which it wasn't his fault if they are all like that.
Our Lowe's 's will open February 8th. Can you offer any more insight? I'm thinking I should camp at the doorway until it opens.
For the longest time the sign on the building read "owe's". I wonder if it was an omen.
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Capitol Court.
No really. A brilliant move on Lowes' part with the nearest Home Depot's being 60 blocks in either direction (Tosa/Port Road).
St. Soozan told me where the next one is going in but I've slept since then and, well, I forgot.
UA100
Fri, Jan 28, 2005, 2:55pm snipped-for-privacy@erehwon.com (Tom=A0Watson) claims: Pretty soon a guy with a Lowes nametag comes out and asks if the nice man wants any help!
I've actually had that happen in various Lowes. But never, ever, in a HD.
The times I've asked for help in Lowes, they've always been able to help me. That's never happendd to me in a HD, and usually takes 2 or 3, minimum; even then, they usually didn't stock what I needed. Which is only "one" of the reasons I don't shop at HD.
JOAT Some is good, more is better, too much is just enough.
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