On Sep 6, 11:54 am, N8N wrote:
On Sep 6, 11:14 am, larry moe 'n curly
wrote:





JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"frank megaweege" wrote in message
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Lowe's and Home Depot are useful for supplies when you know exactly
what you need, can go in, load up your cart and get out with as little
interaction with employees as possible. They're usually hiding from
customers anyway.

I had absolutely no problem at HD, getting a can of Kilz white exterior
latex glossy to match the previous can of the exact same thing. :-) The
paint expert was very helpful when he said "yeah it's down that aisle
somewhere". :-)

I live where a Home Depot and Lowe's are almost across the street from
one another, and I haven't been to Lowe's in over a year because they
made a pricing mistake on every other visit, and their employees were
a lot less informed and less available. For example, I needed a
window air conditioner one July, and it took three Lowe's employees to
find them in their store. OTOH when I needed an odd electrical item,
a Home Depot employee who worked in a completely different department
told me exactly where to find it, not only the aisle but how far from
the end and how high above the floor.

BTW at a place like Home Depot, if you have a complex problem try to
find an employee who doesn't smile because that person is probably a
contractor working part time. At one of their stores that meant the
lighting dept. was staffed by an electrical engineer who testing
lighting at UL.

Wow, youre experiences are exactly the opposite of mine. I live near
two HD's and going to either is a pointless exercise. After asking
three different people where to find something you usually give up and
just drive the extra 20 miles to Lowe's and wonder why you bothered in
the first place.

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Thats my experience at HD, I had to cut my own wire last night, I only
needed 20 feet and didn't want to buy a 500 foot roll at todays copper
prices. All the floor people were hiding from customers, as usual
(Frankfort Illinois store). I was scolded by the checkout lady when I
told her "20 feet at .20 cents a foot", of couse she didn't trust me,
so she had to call the guy to verify the .20, then she proceeded
untaping the wire and actually measured it across the floor, of course
it was 20 feet. At my old hardware store the guy would give you
something then tell you what to tell the cashier up front "just tell
her it's .50 cents a foot" or whatever. Then I needed some faucet
hoses, I had to explain to the clerk that HD's faucet hoses were not
really stainless braid, but rather they are cheap nylon braid made
silver to fool DIY people into thinking they were stainless braid. I
said no deal and bought the hoses at Menards, they are all stainless
there, no cheap crap. HD is going downhill, I know because I've been
going there since it's inception.