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"Stephen Blackpool" wrote in message
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March 8, 2007
Is Home Depot shafting shoppers?
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com....aspx?GT1=9215

By cutting back on employees, the home-improvement retailer is putting
the screws to the people it needs most: its customers.


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, and this is Home
Despot's fault? Not the fault of brain dead parents who were too busy
watching 200 channels of cable to to get off their fat, lazy asses and
teach their kids how to find a merchant in the phone book?

They live with their kids for 18 years or longer, and no time to teach
something easy like this?

You've never run a business, have you?


Matter of fact, yes. How do you feel your question relates to the fact
that some people somehow reach adulthood with virtually no resources?

That you blame the problem on the customers.

So typically American.


Think harder, and spend more time reading newsgroup questions. Here's what
you'll find out:

- There are people who have never set foot in a hardware store or specialty
store (appliances, lighting, plumbing, etc), and it's NOT always because all
the specialty stores have vanished from their towns. They seem to believe
that if the employees aren't wearing little aprons, then the specialty
stores must be intended for contractors only.

- There are people who think that if they have a problem with Home Depot,
the solution is to go to Lowe's. Or, complain about it here. Some people are
not capable of devising another solution.

- There are people who apparently don't know that you can open the yellow
pages phone book and find businesses in it. Right here in this newsgroup,
I've seen people say "Thanks. That's actually a good idea. I'll try it". Are
we dealing with children here?

So, tell me: Who do YOU blame for creating humans who are so unresourceful?
Advertising that makes the big box stores seem like the only source for
every damned thing? Maybe. But, I choose to lay much of the blame on
parents. I would like to hear YOUR theory, though.


Hint: Since the year 2000, there have been two reasonably accurate surveys
in this country which indicate that about 54% of the population is stupid
and docile.