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Lowes Web Site
On Apr 22, 9:07*am, mcp6453 wrote:
Has anyone noticed how painfully slow the Lowe's web site is? Works fine for me and my connection speed is only 768k (tops). |
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:20:36 -0700 (PDT), Ron
wrote: On Apr 22, 9:07*am, mcp6453 wrote: Has anyone noticed how painfully slow the Lowe's web site is? Works fine for me and my connection speed is only 768k (tops). Several months ago I used the Lowe's site to locate a product. I could have bought it online, but instead, wanted to find a local store. Sure enough one store had the tool in stock. After looking and looking, I asked a guy in the tool area. He glanced a short while and could not find it and stated they did have the tool. I told him the web site indicated that store had several reported in inventory. I did find the tool just outside the tool area, under a shelf and sitting on the floor. Not where you expect to find it.... |
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Oren wrote the following:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:20:36 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote: On Apr 22, 9:07 am, mcp6453 wrote: Has anyone noticed how painfully slow the Lowe's web site is? Works fine for me and my connection speed is only 768k (tops). Several months ago I used the Lowe's site to locate a product. I could have bought it online, but instead, wanted to find a local store. Sure enough one store had the tool in stock. After looking and looking, I asked a guy in the tool area. He glanced a short while and could not find it and stated they did have the tool. I told him the web site indicated that store had several reported in inventory. I did find the tool just outside the tool area, under a shelf and sitting on the floor. Not where you expect to find it.... The site reflects the inventory of the particular store you set as the local store.That doesn't mean it is on the shelf. I too had the same problem. The item was not on the shelf. I asked an 'associate' and he checked with customer service and they found the product in the storeroom. -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:35:33 -0400, willshak
wrote: The site reflects the inventory of the particular store you set as the local store.That doesn't mean it is on the shelf. I too had the same problem. The item was not on the shelf. I asked an 'associate' and he checked with customer service and they found the product in the storeroom. I really meant to say above, that the ''associate'" said they did not have the product. After looking closer I found it on my own. In that case the web site was correct - only one store in my selection distance had the item. IMO, the first thing to do on a site like that is pick the local store location and go from there... |
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Oren wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:20:36 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote: On Apr 22, 9:07 am, mcp6453 wrote: Has anyone noticed how painfully slow the Lowe's web site is? Works fine for me and my connection speed is only 768k (tops). Several months ago I used the Lowe's site to locate a product. I could have bought it online, but instead, wanted to find a local store. Sure enough one store had the tool in stock. After looking and looking, I asked a guy in the tool area. He glanced a short while and could not find it and stated they did have the tool. I told him the web site indicated that store had several reported in inventory. I did find the tool just outside the tool area, under a shelf and sitting on the floor. Not where you expect to find it.... I have found most big-box web sites (Lowes, Sams, etc), are VERY bad at having the web site reflect actual in-store inventory. Sometimes the site says they have it and they really don't, sometimes vice-versa. Pretty clear the DB the web site bangs is not the actual real-time inventory system, but a daily truncated subset of it. My local Lowes, a lot of stuff they carry isn't even listed on the web site at all. -- aem sends... |
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"aemeijers" wrote in message
... Oren wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:20:36 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote: On Apr 22, 9:07 am, mcp6453 wrote: Has anyone noticed how painfully slow the Lowe's web site is? Works fine for me and my connection speed is only 768k (tops). Several months ago I used the Lowe's site to locate a product. I could have bought it online, but instead, wanted to find a local store. Sure enough one store had the tool in stock. After looking and looking, I asked a guy in the tool area. He glanced a short while and could not find it and stated they did have the tool. I told him the web site indicated that store had several reported in inventory. I did find the tool just outside the tool area, under a shelf and sitting on the floor. Not where you expect to find it.... I have found most big-box web sites (Lowes, Sams, etc), are VERY bad at having the web site reflect actual in-store inventory. Sometimes the site says they have it and they really don't, sometimes vice-versa. Pretty clear the DB the web site bangs is not the actual real-time inventory system, but a daily truncated subset of it. My local Lowes, a lot of stuff they carry isn't even listed on the web site at all. -- aem sends... I don't think the intent of their website was to put their entire in store stock of all their stores streamed in real time on their website......To even think that would be possible without allowing public access to the very protected intranet is rather naive...It is for window shopping , calculating the approximate cost of a project , and orders from those who live no where near a store to order some general stuff...I'm sure they have marketing data to justify what they put online....Will it please everyone ?? No it can't possibly do so....That said , Home Depot's website is better than Lowes...Especially the real time chat with a real person to ask questions...Cool feature... |
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