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Discussion starter · #21 ·
Home Depot sends in managers from other HD stores as shoppers. If the employees don't say hello or offer help to everyone with in ear shot. They are written up and subject to dismissal. Even if they are already helping someone else.

That is a little extreem to me.
 
#22 ·
Can I play Andy Rooney?
"Did you ever notice...."
1. If you don't NEED help, there is at least one, usually two store employees following you around like lost puppies, but when you WANT help, the store is apparently completely deserted?

1a. If you go in wearing dress clothes or a neat company uniform you get decent service, if you go in wearing stained up work clothes they look at you like you're gonna steal the whole d@#$ store?

2. If you know EXACTLY what you need, they either never heard of it, don't carry it, or are out of it until the second Tuesday of next week.

2a. If you need parts for something that isn't in the stupid computer, nobody could possibly have ever made such a thing, let alone the store ever have sold it to you.

3. Big box stores carry at LEAST 100,000 ugly. useless items that nobody in their right mind would buy... but somebody must... that you have to hike past to find out that they don't carry what you need? (HD, Target....)

4. Whatever is 'on sale' this month just happens to be something that is desperately wrong with your car, even though all you wanted was a new battery (Sears.......)
5. Nothing is EVER located where it was just YESTERDAY when you were in the store comparing prices (Mal-Wart....)

6. If you send your wife (or are a woman) for a specific item the clerk will try to convince her that what you sent her for couldn't possibly be RIGHT, and try to sell her something more expensive and/or totally useless for whatever you are trying to do?

7. You usually discover you desperately NEED something to finish a project about 3 minutes after the store closed?

8. As soon as you bite the bullet and buy something, it will go on sale at a competitor's store the next week?

9. The surest way to find any lost item is to give up and go buy a more expensive replacement?

10. Every project takes at LEAST twice as long and costs three times as much as it should?
 
Discussion starter · #25 ·
I liked Andy Roony. I thought he was funny.

I like the Greeter at Wall Mart.

Every big box store should have one.

If you need help you know exactly where to go to get it.

Then he could find someone to help you

Then those of us who know what we are doing can go about our busniess un interrupted.
 
#27 ·
Posted By John J on 14 Mar 2010 08:58 AM
I liked Andy Roony. I thought he was funny.

I like the Greeter at Wall Mart.

Every big box store should have one.

If you need help you know exactly where to go to get it.

Then he could find someone to help you

Then those of us who know what we are doing can go about our busniess un interrupted.


When I get accosted by the "Greeter" at Wally*World, I always ask where the free stuff is...

I get a quizical look and then I say,

"Well, Wal*Mart has been lowering prices for years, so I figure there oughta be a lot of free stuff by now."
 
#28 ·
Its a big world out there. If you do not like HD then do not go to HD. There are still plenty of smaller hardware stores, and if there is not one in your area you can find anything and everything on the internet. But you know what? Since you will probably save a few bucks at HD you will complain about them but still go there 9 times out of 10. Thats what it is really all about. You may pick and choose a purchase here and there from the little guy to make yourself feel like you are buying American or going against the "Big Evil Corporations " but in the end, out go the scruples..........................you gonna save the bucks.
 
#29 ·
Posted By Steve S. on 14 Mar 2010 01:29 PM
Its a big world out there. If you do not like HD then do not go to HD. There are still plenty of smaller hardware stores, and if there is not one in your area you can find anything and everything on the internet. But you know what? Since you will probably save a few bucks at HD you will complain about them but still go there 9 times out of 10. Thats what it is really all about. You may pick and choose a purchase here and there from the little guy to make yourself feel like you are buying American or going against the "Big Evil Corporations " but in the end, out go the scruples..........................you gonna save the bucks.
 
#30 ·
Never mind HD. I loved Mik's Spike Jones clip. As a kid I idolized the guy (Ernie Kovacs and Steve Allen too) and bought all his 78-rpm records, which I still have. For your trivia file: Jones was from Long Beach, California; Doodles Weaver, one of his zany accomplices, was the brother of Pat Weaver (head of NBC, I think), whose daughter is Sigourny Weaver. Talk about your six degrees of separation...:)
 
Discussion starter · #31 ·
Posted By joe rusz on 14 Mar 2010 06:19 PM
Never mind HD. I loved Mik's Spike Jones clip. As a kid I idolized the guy (Ernie Kovacs and Steve Allen too) and bought all his 78-rpm records, which I still have. For your trivia file: Jones was from Long Beach, California; Doodles Weaver, one of his zany accomplices, was the brother of Pat Weaver (head of NBC, I think), whose daughter is Sigourny Weaver. Talk about your six degrees of separation...:)

I think some Relative of Sigourny Weaver was at Marty's last September.
 
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