Yuk! HOME DEPOT is awful these days

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Here in Canada, Home Depot is not too bad yet but getting worse. There used to be 15 cashouts in the local store, they are down to two regular and one for lumber. They used to stock an suppliers entire line down to the last little item, now it is only the big sellers. They squeezed in appliances and dropped hardwood veneer plywoods and only carry some thicknesses of plywood, mdf and other sheet goods. If you want other thicknesses, go elsewhere.

When I can, I go to the local Revy Store, unfortunately it is very small but they can pack in almost as much merchandise as Home Depot, except building materials which are outside and sheet goods which they don't have much room for. They have cashiers and floor help and a bigger variety of many items.

We used to have 5 lumberyards and 3 hardware stores, now we are down to Revy, and Home Depot with some Canadian Tires which don't carry lumber and building supplies. The one good lumberyard closed its local store and moved to its rural store where it still is if you want a 30 mile round trip.

[bf]

Wow, you must be fun to go on vacation with, if you take the time to stop at all the home depots just so you can complain about how bad they are LOL.

[jimmy]

We actually have quite a few, even big name one's like ESSO. There are 4 in a one mile stretch alone.

[gesres]

I don't care whose job it is, I just want in and out expeditiously, and that occurs when I do stuff for myself. I much prefer pumping my own gas and serving myself at restaurants so that I don't have to wait on someone else.

But, I'm pleased that others feel the way you do. That keeps the self-serve lines short. :-)

[R. Pierce Butler]

Puckdropper wrote in news:44d01763$0$17958$892e7fe2 @authen.yellow.readfreenews.net:

I was buying some siding that was available at both Lowes and HD. It seemed that the siding from Lowes was better quality. Same with PT 2x4s. Lowes tool section is better. Some of th sales droids at HD are real goofs but you can get that anywhere. The CEO of HD is a real asshole from what I hear from employess. There is no dedication to the company or the job either.

Isn't HD what "Handy Andy" and "Handy Dan" evolved into? I expect that HD is headed to the same demise.

[Charlie]

What do you expect from a company that would sponsor a jerk like Tony Stewart ! ! !

R. Pierce Butler wrote:

[Dan]

Me too. I use them whenever they are available. Almost always quicker. Plus I'd much rather do it myself & use a machine than deal with a moron ;-) Recently bought a bunch of lumber, including 5 2x6's, at the local Home Depot. Idiot who rang me up charged me for 6. I noticed this on the receipt out in the parking lot & dragged the whole load back into the store, where the same cashier was standing by the door. Naturally he couldn't correct his mistake, I had to go stand in ANOTHER line at the "service" desk. How hard is it to count to 5, for christ sake? I recently moved to Seattle from central Ohio (Columbus area). I also visit family in the Los Angeles area frequently. In central Ohio, virtually every grocery store has self checkouts, in LA about the ONLY place I've seen them with any regularity is Home Depot. They're a BIT more prevalent in WA, but not much, though again the HD's do have them.

Dan

[Tim Taylor]

EASY NOW!!!!! He's better than Jeff Gordon. And Robby Gordon for that matter of fact.

[CW]

Pass one on the way home from work daily.

[Hedley]

Don't knock Menards. Typically lower prices than the BORG, they hire cute girls, and there is ALWAYS someone on the floor. Clueless or not, they try to be helpful.

Menards is privately held, by the way. They may have bean counters, but those bean counters answer to the owners, not friggin neurotic share holders. That means a lot. Share holders (the big insuance or pension managers) can force an ass-rape on a company and then sell when the price start to go down. Owners are in for the long haul.

That said, I do try to go to the BORG when I can to support the local tax base. Menards is "just a bit outside" my village's boundaries, but they still get a substantial percentage of my money.

[J. Clarke]

Where would that be? Didn't realize that ESSO was still being used as a brand name.

[J. Clarke]

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what "Menards" might be.

[Mark & Juanita]

... yep. A while back my son and I were walking into HD for something that had broken that weekend (I think it was manifold for the drip system) when we met a person I have worked with in the past. He was coming out of the store happy as a lark, say me and said, "going into the fun store, eh?" Funny thing is, I haven't looked at HD that way for probably the last 12 years.

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[Puckdropper]

"J. Clarke" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

You might want to do a quick search for their website and have a look. (I think it's

but don't quote me on that.) Most stores have about everything you'll need to build and maintain a house and then some.

Given the choice between Menards and Home Depot/Lowes, I usually go Menards. (We live about halfway between Menards and HD.)

Puckdropper

[Lobby Dosser]

So you got at least $24 from them and maybe more like $35. I'm thinking you need to keep the cards and letters coming until you save up enough cards for something you want but don't need. :-)

[J. Clarke]

I was being facetious. The closest Menards to me is several hundred miles away and across a national border.

[Brian Elfert]

Menards is the third largest "Home Improvement" chain based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Stores are located mainly in the midwest in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Michigan, Nebraska, North/South Dakota.

Some of their old stores are poorly laid out, but the new stores are really nice. They are much closer to a lumberyard than HD or Lowes. They actually have a outdoor lumberyard at the stores so stuff can be put directly into a vehicle instead of loaded in a cart and hauled outside.

The Menard family is also big into racing. Various Menard family members have been on the Indy and Nascar racing circuits.

Brian Elfert

[Wes Stewart]

And everybody else too.

[Wes Stewart]

Hmmm. They sent me a no-limit 10% off coupon.

[Ron Truitt]

The local HD here(central Texas) went to the single checkout and computer self check and my experiences were all negative. Each time I got a receipt there was a suggestion to take a survey about my experience that trip so I went home and chimed in with my 2 cents worth. But a year later nothing has changed much.

For all lumber and other long or heavy items I go to a lumber yard here just to keep from handling the stock so much and also to avoid the HD checkouts. Luckly we have two lumberyards that do a pretty good job on most items.

Ron T