We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:21:56 -0600, Unisaw A100 wrote:
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

Where is it at? Haven't seen anything about it until now.

Dave

"Unisaw A100" wrote in message
...
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...






Here's some fun. Go into one of these places and ask the sales person to
give you a better price on an item.
The look of confusion on their faces is intriguing.

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:21:56 -0600, Unisaw A100
wrote:

We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...


I saw this episode, too!

Pretty soon a guy with a Lowes nametag comes out and asks if the nice
man wants any help!

Only on TV! It's completely unbelievable!


watson - who only wishes that real life was just like TV.



tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)

That will make it very convenient, you will be able to tell which one you
are in. I used to live in the Northern VA suburbs of DC and there were 5
HDs within 5 miles of my house (some were Hechingers), and 5 different floor
plans. Very confusing. And you still couldn't get informed help. At
least, I had 3 good wood dealers nearby; here in NC it is 30 miles to get
good wood at a good price.

Steve

"Unisaw A100" wrote in message
...
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:21:56 -0600, Unisaw A100
wrote:

We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

Yeah, we had a Lowes open up here last fall, right behind the orange
Borg. As soon as they opened HD laid off about half their employees.
You go into Lowes and there are salespeople crawling the halls, mostly
in pairs talking to each other. It's the same stuff at the same prices
in a newer store with (unbelievably enough) worse service. Yowsa!

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com

"Unisaw A100" wrote in message
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...

Must be red state/blue state ... it's just the opposite down heah.

BTW, don't try talking to that friendly looking 5' 4" gentleman/lady always
standing in the same spot just past the entrance door ... he/she's a
cardboard cutout.

--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 11/06/04

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:36:57 -0600, Swingman wrote:
"Unisaw A100" wrote in message
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...

Must be red state/blue state ... it's just the opposite down heah.

Well, 'sconsin is juuuuuuuust barely whatever color Democrat is, so I'm
not sure that makes a difference. Almost at the point where if the
invalid votes in Milwaukee hadn't been cast, it might have gone the
other way.

Dave Hinz wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:21:56 -0600, Unisaw A100
wrote:
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

Where is it at? Haven't seen anything about it until now.

Dave

Right around 60th and Capital. I plan on stopping by soon. The last
time I was at HD I said in my loudest voice to one of the floor
managers "I will never shop here again!" I suspect Lowe's will reach
that point after two or three visits.

dave

On 28 Jan 2005 12:48:35 -0800, wrote:

Dave Hinz wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:21:56 -0600, Unisaw A100
wrote:
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

Where is it at? Haven't seen anything about it until now.

Right around 60th and Capital.

Um. OK, so I should take Smith _and_ Wesson with me I assume? Or has
that area improved in the last, say, 10 years?

I plan on stopping by soon. The last
time I was at HD I said in my loudest voice to one of the floor
managers "I will never shop here again!" I suspect Lowe's will reach
that point after two or three visits.

You may be more tolerant than I. I only will go into my local-ish HD
(out on Hwy 83 and I-94) if, and only if, the hardware store at the
bottom of HD's hill doesn't have what I want. So I pay 5 bucks more
per trip or something - but they know what I'm talking about when I
ask for or about something.

Dave Hinz

"Unisaw A100" wrote in message
...
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

Consider yourself lucky. In our Home Depot, depending on where you park,
you can access the tools from the right or left.

SH - The "decisions, decisions" woodworker

Unisaw A100 wrote:

We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

Actually, they (HD) lay different ones out as mirror images for some
reason I don't fathom...the two in Konxville, TN, are mirror images of
each other...of course, one is west, the other east--maybe that's it..

"Unisaw A100" wrote in message
...
We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...

Is there another entrance?

"Swingman" wrote in message
...

Must be red state/blue state ... it's just the opposite down heah.

BTW, don't try talking to that friendly looking 5' 4" gentleman/lady
always
standing in the same spot just past the entrance door ... he/she's a
cardboard cutout.


I talk to that lady in the Sugarland SW Freeway store on occasion. This one
is so realistic that she actually walks and talks. However her standard
answer is to continue looking where you were looking if you are having a
hard time finding something. Soooo although the model in the Sugarland
store is sophisticated enough that she does walk and talk she cannot think
or give more than one answer to multiple questions. She must have been a
doctor or weather forecaster model in a previous job function as she is
never right the first time she answers.

On Friday 28 Jan 2005 7:55 pm, Tom Watson scribbled:

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:21:56 -0600, Unisaw A100
wrote:

We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...


I saw this episode, too!

Pretty soon a guy with a Lowes nametag comes out and asks if the nice
man wants any help!

Only on TV! It's completely unbelievable!

watson - who only wishes that real life was just like TV.

Can be. SOP is: I walk into my Home Hardware quasi borg, say hi to some
of the nice staff. Start looking for stuff. Nice guy or gal comes to me
and says: "Can I help you Luigi?"

"I'm looking for a certain particular blurfl, can't seem to find it. Do
you have any?" says I. Answer is:
(a) "I think we have some in aisle XX, let's go check." or
(b) "I don't think so, but I think Crappy Tire/Gordy/Kilrich might have
it." or
(c) "I don't know, but [insert name of other staff] might know. Hey
[name of other staff]! Do you know where the blurfls are?" or
(d) "We don't have any, but how about using a whatchamacallit instead?"
or
(e) "We could bring it in/We can't bring them in anymore."

Like JOAT says, life is good.

--
Luigi

On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 4:07 am, Unisaw A100 scribbled:

On that note, anyone have a link to the Paully Rad
masterpiece Bonefish?

UA100

You mean this one?

http://www.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr...concentric.net

Google is your friend. Gotta add that one to the hoomer page.

--
Luigi
Replace "nonet" with "yukonomics" for real email
www.yukonomics.ca/wooddorking/humour.html
www.yukonomics.ca/wooddorking/antifaq.html

Unisaw A100 wrote:

We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...
We have several here in the city, all of them except one the tool department
is on the right. I stopped in the mirrored Lowes one day and walked to the
back and pushed the door to the womens restroom open and the women employee
said "this Lowes is opposite from the rest" so she seemed used to other
people doing the same thing.
The Lowes around here have terrible lumber, takes me forever to dig through
the pile for a straight piece. All of them are like that too so when I
sent a note to them on their web site they had the manager of the closest
store to me call and apologize, which it wasn't his fault if they are all
like that.

Unisaw A100 wrote:

We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...

Our Lowe's 's will open February 8th. Can you offer any more
insight? I'm thinking I should camp at the doorway until it opens.

For the longest time the sign on the building read "owe's". I wonder
if it was an omen.

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
(Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)

Dave Hinz wrote:
Where is it at? Haven't seen anything about it until now.



Capitol Court.

No really. A brilliant move on Lowes' part with the nearest
Home Depot's being 60 blocks in either direction (Tosa/Port
Road).

St. Soozan told me where the next one is going in but I've
slept since then and, well, I forgot.

UA100

Fri, Jan 28, 2005, 2:55pm (Tom=A0Watson) claims:
snip Pretty soon a guy with a Lowes nametag comes out and asks if the
nice man wants any help! snip

I've actually had that happen in various Lowes. But never, ever,
in a HD.

The times I've asked for help in Lowes, they've always been able to
help me. That's never happendd to me in a HD, and usually takes 2 or 3,
minimum; even then, they usually didn't stock what I needed. Which is
only "one" of the reasons I don't shop at HD.



JOAT
Some is good, more is better, too much is just enough.
- Unknown

TaskMule wrote:
Here's some fun. Go into one of these places and ask the sales person to
give you a better price on an item.
The look of confusion on their faces is intriguing.


Actually, I did that. I was needing a smallish piece of MCP
(The Claire (age 9) Bed Project) and everything they had was
buggered up in one place or another. I asked the guy what
he'd discount it if I took a particular one (one buggered
where it didn't matter to me) and I got a third ($5) off.

UA100, who realizes they don't do this willingly for
unbuggered product but damn I didn't want to pay full
freight on something buggered...

Swingman wrote:
BTW, don't try talking to that friendly looking 5' 4" gentleman/lady always
standing in the same spot just past the entrance door ... he/she's a
cardboard cutout.


Now you tell me.

I thought she was a lezbo 'cause she ignored me when I hit
on her.

sigh...

UA100

Dave:
Right around 60th and Capital. I plan on stopping by soon. The last
time I was at HD I said in my loudest voice to one of the floor
managers "I will never shop here again!" I suspect Lowe's will reach
that point after two or three visits.


Yahbut, you don't have to go quite as far to get the
same(ish) service.

Good thing there's an Eliot's on your way home?

UA100, who was a wee bit put out at Nue's the last time
because they didn't have a single 5/16" hex head cap
screw/no really, it's true...

Dave Hinz wrote:
Um. OK, so I should take Smith _and_ Wesson with me I assume? Or has
that area improved in the last, say, 10 years?

Well, let me give you directions. Head east on Capitol and
make a left at Starbucks, in front of the new Pick 'N Save,
the other side of the new WalMart.

Sound like it may have improved to you?

UA100, who finds Milwaukeeans funny when it comes to
"colored folk"...

In article ,
Nova wrote:
Unisaw A100 wrote:

We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...

Our Lowe's 's will open February 8th. Can you offer any more
insight? I'm thinking I should camp at the doorway until it opens.

For the longest time the sign on the building read "owe's". I wonder
if it was an omen.


Yup. means that the place had *NOT* "gone to L" yet. groan

Funny thing this wreck of ours. I'm reading a post, as I read most of
the regulars, then it occurs to me that I spend time on the wreck as I
want to learn, and not waste my time on mindless soapies following the
lives of virtual existences.

Then I recall the great house/shop fire, major tool purchases, on-line
flame fests, the death of valued regulars, shop dogs, births and
marriages and wonder "what *is* the difference"?

I suppose the fact that these 'virtual existences' are woven with our
specific interests yet combined with knowledge, amusement, sometimes
drama, and a modicum of interaction are the keys. But it is a
powerful mix to keep people coming back year after year. Some of the
grumpy old men have been trapped here for more than a decade.

So, what say you, what is the attraction for yourself?

Groggy


As the anniversary of the passing of Paully Radovanic is approaching
I'd like to say he's still missed, and I hope his family are well. For
the newbies, may I suggest you read some of Paul's posts in Google on
finishing.

Groggy asks:

Funny thing this wreck of ours. I'm reading a post, as I read most of
the regulars, then it occurs to me that I spend time on the wreck as I
want to learn, and not waste my time on mindless soapies following the
lives of virtual existences.

Then I recall the great house/shop fire, major tool purchases, on-line
flame fests, the death of valued regulars, shop dogs, births and
marriages and wonder "what *is* the difference"?

I suppose the fact that these 'virtual existences' are woven with our
specific interests yet combined with knowledge, amusement, sometimes
drama, and a modicum of interaction are the keys. But it is a
powerful mix to keep people coming back year after year. Some of the
grumpy old men have been trapped here for more than a decade.

So, what say you, what is the attraction for yourself?

Well, my chin whiskers are caught in my keyboard, for a start. Part of the
reason I'm grumpy. The rest of the reason is I'm old.

Charlie Self
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some
kind of federal program." George W. Bush, St. Charles, Missouri, November 2,
2000

"J T" wrote in message
...

The times I've asked for help in Lowes, they've always been able to
help me. That's never happendd to me in a HD, and usually takes 2 or 3,
minimum; even then, they usually didn't stock what I needed. Which is
only "one" of the reasons I don't shop at HD.



As far as I am concerned they are all the same! I don't got to HD or Lowes
and expect knowledgeable clerks to surround me. I go to buy a tubafour. If I
need help, I go else where!

I while back I needed a piece of "B" vent for a furnace I was helping my
neighbor install. Now normally I would go to the local wholesale house, but
I was a piece short and we wanted to get-r-done. We went to HD, but they had
a different brand, ("B" vent varies by brand, you can not mix and match
brands), so we went to Lowes. In Lowes heating department I found one piece
of "B" vent, right brand, Lowes sticker on it, so I know they stocked it!
But no more, no selection of various lengths, no fittings, just this one
lost and lonely piece. I asked the confused clerk where in the store did
they have this venting, of course I just got some mumbling and shuffling of
his feet. Next I asked where they had water heaters in the store, more
mumbling, shuffling. I walked off and eventually found the water heaters and
a good selection of the venting I was looking for. Seems they stock it with
the gas fired water heaters.
Greg

"Swingman" wrote in message
...
"
BTW, don't try talking to that friendly looking 5' 4" gentleman/lady
always
standing in the same spot just past the entrance door ... he/she's a
cardboard cutout.

--

How can you tell the difference? Most of the clerks act and look like a
cardboard cutout, 'cept some of them move a bit faster!
Greg

"Nova" wrote in message
...
Unisaw A100 wrote:

We just got our very first Lowes and after my visit I
noticed that it/they are vastly different from Home Depot.
At Lowes you turn left to get to the tool department. At
Home Depot you turn right.

UA100, who wonders if it's subliminal...

Our Lowe's 's will open February 8th. Can you offer any more
insight? I'm thinking I should camp at the doorway until it opens.



If you have no life, no hobbies, it will do.
Greg

Greg O wrote:

"Swingman" wrote in message
...


"
BTW, don't try talking to that friendly looking 5' 4" gentleman/lady
always
standing in the same spot just past the entrance door ... he/she's a
cardboard cutout.

--



How can you tell the difference? Most of the clerks act and look like a
cardboard cutout, 'cept some of them move a bit faster!
Greg




'Cause this is the cutout that looks like Norm.............

Unisaw A100 wrote:
Capitol Court.

No really. A brilliant move on Lowes' part with the nearest
Home Depot's being 60 blocks in either direction (Tosa/Port
Road).

St. Soozan told me where the next one is going in but I've
slept since then and, well, I forgot.

UA100


This just in. St. Soozan informs me that the rumor is the
next Lowes is going in at a 124th. and Burleigh, where the
Briggs & Stratton plant *used* to be which puts them nearly
in Home Depot's front parking lot.

UA100, who hasn't been by to see the carnage at B&S yet...

Duane Bozarth wrote:
Actually, they (HD) lay different ones out as mirror images for some
reason I don't fathom...the two in Konxville, TN, are mirror images of
each other...of course, one is west, the other east--maybe that's it..


This is pretty common in lots of different stores. I used to work at a
"left handed" Wal-Mart. Since it was the only Wal-Mart around, I had no
idea it was backwards until I started driving a truck.

As far as the Lowes' vs. HD experience, when HD finally came to town, I
looked around a few times, and pronounced it "just like Lowe's, only
orange." I wonder if Keith feels the same about Lowe's, having grown up in
HD. The two stores are about 90% identical merchandise/price wise. The
layouts are different, and that's annoying. I'd rather shop at the one
where I know how to find stuff, and for me, that's Lowe's. I almost never
bother to drive a bit further up the street to HD. It's not that I hate
HD, but I do feel like their store is pretty much superfluous. Lowe's is
closer, familiar, and 90% identical. Oh, and it's blue, not orange. I
hate orange.

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Groggy wrote:
As the anniversary of the passing of Paully Radovanic is approaching
I'd like to say he's still missed, and I hope his family are well. For
the newbies, may I suggest you read some of Paul's posts in Google on
finishing.


On that note, anyone have a link to the Paully Rad
masterpiece Bonefish?

UA100

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:33:54 -0500, J T wrote:

Fri, Jan 28, 2005, 2:55pm (Tom*Watson) claims: snip
Pretty soon a guy with a Lowes nametag comes out and asks if the nice man
wants any help! snip

I've actually had that happen in various Lowes. But never, ever,
in a HD.

The times I've asked for help in Lowes, they've always been able to
help me. That's never happendd to me in a HD, and usually takes 2 or 3,
minimum; even then, they usually didn't stock what I needed. Which is
only "one" of the reasons I don't shop at HD.

I've just given up on asking. If I can't find what I want, I assume that
either a) they don't have it, or 2) they don't care if they sell it to me.
Either way I leave and go to the next one (and the next and... until I put
the project on-hold and get what I need on-line).

--
Joe Wells

In article ,
Unisaw A100 wrote:

SNIP
buggered
SNIP
buggered
SNIP
unbuggered
SNIP
buggered...

Sompin' on yer mind there Uni a'hunnert?

--
Owen Lowe and his Fly-by-Night Copper Company
____

"Sure we'll have fascism in America, but it'll come disguised
as 100% Americanism." -- Huey P. Long

"Unisaw A100" wrote in message
...
Unisaw A100 wrote:
Capitol Court.

No really. A brilliant move on Lowes' part with the nearest
Home Depot's being 60 blocks in either direction (Tosa/Port
Road).

St. Soozan told me where the next one is going in but I've
slept since then and, well, I forgot.

UA100


This just in. St. Soozan informs me that the rumor is the
next Lowes is going in at a 124th. and Burleigh, where the
Briggs & Stratton plant *used* to be which puts them nearly
in Home Depot's front parking lot.

UA100, who hasn't been by to see the carnage at B&S yet...

They moved all of the stuff to Mexico. Remember what Ross Perot said in the
debates about "hearing a giant sucking sound"?

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.

"TaskMule" wrote in message
...
Here's some fun. Go into one of these places and ask the sales person to
give you a better price on an item.
The look of confusion on their faces is intriguing.


They don't have salesmen at the Borg, they have clerks.

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.

Luigi Zanasi wrote:
You mean this one?

http://www.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr...concentric.net

Google is your friend. Gotta add that one to the hoomer page.



Thanks Weeg.

UA100

Australopithecus scobis wrote:
Menard's OTH (on 76th) has actively hostile twerps roaming the aisles.


The Menard's "up by me" has a program where they'll give you
a discount if you can show a picture of a car on blocks in
front of your double wide or prove that you store your ice
auger in your bedroom.

UA100, who once saw a bumper sticker that read, "Deer Fear
Me, Women Crave Me" and thought, that's a Menard's
shopper...