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I decided to quit Home Depot. Both of their stores in my area don't have enough help any more and I got sick of walking, walking, looking for an orange apron. These guys do masterful job of disappearing to god knows where when you need one of them.

It's the biggest time of the year in the Home Depot Garden section. Not enough help there either, in the past two months. In fact I couldn't find a clerk there at all the last two times I was there. I had to ask to speak to the store manager to get some help to appear outside.

So, as I said, I quit Home Depot. My next trip was to Lowes, a longer distance away. Guess what! Not enough clerks there either.

I think I'll eat some worms.

Leni

My last last two trips to HD garden check-out.

1. The line was long (partly due to the fact that people with nails and paint were trying to avoid the computer check-out and were mixed in with the dirt and begonia customers). I saw an employee approach a check-out booth and since I had didn't have a cart, walked over to see if indeed she was opening up, the answer was yes and I waved to the two gals I had been talking with in the other line (we were talking about how HD has gone down hill). At that point people in line shifted to get there first and all hell broke loose. One woman was screaming so much about where she should be in line, her husband walked out of the garden area in embarrassment. Everyone was stressed and short by this time. HD lost several customers that day.

2. I went to get 8 bags of dirt and since I had recently had some surgery on my hand, decided to pay for the dirt inside and drive through the yard and have it loaded. Normally, I would have loaded that amount on a flat-bed and taken it to the car myself. The line was long and while I waited a manager walked by, I asked him if the garden soil I wanted would be out in the yard, he assured me it would. When I got to the checker, I told her what I needed and she didn't have any book with the skew #. She yells at the other checker who doesn't have one either. Other customers are staring holes in my back. I told her the customer in front of me had just bought a bag of what I wanted so she backed up that transaction and got the #. I paid and drove around to the pick-up yard. They didn't have that dirt stocked there. BUT the nice guy loading cars told me to leave the car there, got a cart walked back inside, got two bricks to stand on so he could reach the bags and loaded them into the cart. He brought them back out to the yard and loaded them into my trunk. HD needs more service like that.

I quit Home Depot after they screwed me on a very large delivery of building materials to my house. I was remodeling my house and the delivery never showed up. When I called, Home Depot said the truck broke down and I might get my delivery the next day. I asked for the Store Manager and cancelled my entire order. I called the local lumber yard, place my order, and got everything in the morning.

I go the the local nursery for my plants. It is a little more, but I can always find a salesperson to help me.