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Home Depot Orders Corporate Staff to Take 8-Hour Retail Shifts (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

You know why their sales are in the shitter? Because contractors have been going elsewhere. They've locked so much product behind lock-and-key, it then takes an hour to find someone to get it for you, and then you have to wait for that associate to zigzag through the store to bring it to the register, and then you have to wait while the poor cashier hands you three other people's items before giving you what your items. The items they are locking up are the ones that contractors grab the most, not the stupid shit Suzie homeowner is coming to buy. On top of all that, the quality of their products keeps dwindling.

Ain't no one got time for that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I’m constantly finding shit opened and missing. Especially fasteners.

If they knew what they were doing they would have a contractors isle that was open and had everything, and just restock it from the locked isles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

So frustrating, dealt with this again a couple days ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're not lying. I regularly buy spools of cable, and I used to have to hunt for an employee clear across the store. They put it out on the walkie and 15 minutes later someone wanders back to the wire cage. I just go elsewhere now, it's cheaper everywhere else anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Dude I've waited two hours for an employee before, only because I was on a job in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. I use a lot of 6awg and I've just taken to climbing the rack. Unfortunately, HD has the best prices on wire.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

This doesn't make any sense to me. When I worked for Home Depot corporate in the 90's, you were required to work on a store for one week. I thought it was an annual thing. Did they drop the requirement?

I should point out that by the end, I hated my job and the culture, and was so ready to leave. After Bernie and Arthur left, the place really went down hill

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They couldn't do any worse than some of the actual retail employees at HD from my experience... When I can find one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I recently moved to a new state and one HD is like the upside world. Literally everyone in the store is willing to talk to you and help you find something. Literal opposite of every HD where I moved from.

Well staffed everytime we’ve been there as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The ol’ Hilton move

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I know more than them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I think this is excellent. Ay real leader would be extraordinarily happy to have access to this data directly. Every company should do this, for mroe like a month. 4 days is nothing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

Home Cheapo. People who “remodel” their home with Home Cheapo products in my opinion make the house worth less. Shop local.