The company website states: "We offer the opportunity for customers to view entire slabs . . . In fact, we encourage this. Even within one individual slab there can be vast color and pattern differences. A visit to our showroom allows you to choose exactly the slab you want for your next home-improvement project."
Unfortunately I traveled about 150 miles to discover that the above statement isn't quite understood by the staff themselves. My color consultant and I were searching for exotic granite to finish a custom kitchen made of dark walnut wood. We found the perfect blend of light and dark in one particular slab, and happily told the 20-something staff. When we pointed out the piece, she stated, "Oh, someone else already put that one on hold." She assured us that the rest of the slabs under the first one were "all the same, since they're all the same lot." After much pleading on my part, she reluctantly agreed to have the spoken-for piece moved so that we could see the slab beneath. The following slab was much darker and blotchier, and did not meet our criteria. Again I asked to see the next piece, the staff person rolled her eyes and brought us to another 20-something who also insisted that "It's all the same lot, they all look alike." After I pointed out that I was spending thousands of dollars and that I would have to live with my choice, they did finally move the second slab, but the next piece was also too dark. They refused to move another slab, "Because we don't usually let people pick through them. Besides, it's all the same lot." They clearly did not care about our concerns, or they simply didn't care enough about their products to help us find the right piece.
We ended up traveling an additional 25 miles to a different company in Lowell where the helpful and knowledgeable staff proudly lined up all their slabs to show us their entire lot of the same type of granite, pointed out several differences between each slab, and allowed us to choose which ones we wanted. read more