I called to get a high BTU ac that my husband is picking up on his way home. He stopped by Home Depot and he had eyes on a 8000btu there in Poway. I was looking to see if Lowe's had a higher BTU in stock. I called and this horrible AI answered really bad learning, from the sound of it, she had just come out of the box and was learning one store at a time, one caller at a time - and I was caller #1- hardly understood anything so I just started saying operator over and over. She finally put me through to the main line and they cut me through to someone (I thought) whom could help.... One can dream, right. Then I got an associate who said his name was Charles - it was 7:15 today Thursday when I am posting it. I asked if they had anything higher than 8000btu. He said they had a ge 15000 - I was relieved. I told him my husband would be there shortly, but I wanted him to have eyes on it. He argued with me and he came back and said they were at mission valley. So I ask him what else, do you have anything else above 8000 btu, I can pay for it o er the phone, he said "Look," like he was mansplaining it to me. I'd been on the phone 13 minutes. "I have to go, "I can't take orders over the phone and I have a customer here." (I thought he was going to add lady to the end of that here. And he hung up. When I was a freshman in high school I worked at the first big box store in Silicon Valley back then in the 1980s. I knew if I talked to anyone that way. I'd be fired, on the spot. There was no reporting you to hr three times back then. I always tried to be helpful, I was never like this on my worst days. Never thought I was above anyone who was coming in, I always was on the floor asking everyone if they needed help, and instead of pointing them in a direction, like they do now and cut you loose, I walked them over, asked them if that was it, or how else I could help them. I'd even call over to som other store and find out if that was what they needed. I asked this associate what his name was toward the end... afterward. So, maybe he might have given me someone else's name, I'd check and see who looked that product up during that time period just a bit ago, I'd also listen to the ai recording. Its learning IQ is really bad. So here's a pic of what my husband got at Home Depot and he order a 15000 btu from them as well. Lowe's - you loose, I guess that is why your lot is always so empty. Don't blame the location, every time I come to you, I have a difficult time finding an associate on the floor at all, let alone someone who can actually help me. You'd be surprised how often I buy it with someone telling me it's the right thing, open the box (because they mansplain how I can't open it first - and 15 minutes later (sometimes more) I've returned it. You're much closer - and no lines - but I am no longer going to try there. Fail, something else will move in there and hopefully employ more people and succeed. Hire more women, they have never steered me wrong there. On the same amount of time "Charles" took to mansplain to me, my husband set it up! Thank you hubby - and Home Depot read more