"Chris Friesen" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

Let me get this straight: Brain-dead customers can't figure out how to
open the yellow pages and find a hardware store, lumber yard, plumbing
store, lighting store, or garden center, any of which will give better
advice and often have better prices than Home Despot....

Around here, HD has the best prices on pretty much all electrical/plumbing
stuff.


Hopefully, nobody interprets this to mean "everywhere", because it sure
isn't the case here. And, even if the stuff is more expensive elsewhere, one
must consider the rest of the equation: Walk into a good plumbing store,
walk out with the right thing in 8 minutes. Walk into HD, and *maybe* you
can find someone to help you get the right thing. Maybe you buy 5 things,
knowing that one of them will be right, and you have to make another trip to
return the other 4. Time is worth something, too.