Solar Flaire wrote:

What do you expect for minimum wage?

HD opened here with all these "trade experts" in every isle. They
thought they would clean up the market. many long term building
supliers closed down for fear they would never compete.
Five or six years later, HD has no experts left, not even the
industrial accident ones. You can't get anybody to serve you, let
alone know anything about a trade tip. The plumbing isle has a guy
that has heard of PEX pipe and another that doesnt know the difference
between PEX-AL-PEX fittings and even one of the 6 different types of
PEX fittings, if you can find him not busy in the shingles sales isle.

..and you want them to know and understand the electrical safety code
too? Most of them are having a hard time knowing that a 1/2" knockout
isn't a physical threat.



Is complaining all you can do? HD's firsrt stores were near me, and
they had good people for well over a decade. The local one has several
part time retired electricians working there, as well as plumbers. The
give basic advice, but on complex jobs they tell the customers to either
hire the job, or talk to the county inspectors before starting the job.
They know what they stock, and how to use it. I guess HD Canada isn't
able to find people like this for their stores. Other hardware and
building supply chains are long gone that tried to compete against them,
and none of them are missed.

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida