First, I'll say that I'm a professional building contractor, and while Menards contractor program was still in effect, I could call my my rep Todd, out of the Oregon, OH store and he would always go out of his way to help me in any way necessary. Now they've phased out the contractor program, and the professional builder who is spending tens to hundreds of thousands, is left to deal with the lumber jockeys in the building department to assist them with everything from special order materials, to complete footing to rooftop builds, with absolutely no accountability, nor authority. Not Good. After they phased out said contractor prog., I stopped doing the bulk of my shopping at Menards, but had no choice but to purchase $3000.00 worth of an expensive special order vinyl deck ceiling called zip-up, from the Toledo store. I placed the order, and after it arrived, I went in to pick it up. Upon being presented with my order, the first thing I noticed was that the order had several white cardboard "flaps" taped to the boxes. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the "flaps" used to be upright cardboard cones which clearly stated in bold-type "DO NOT STACK ANYTHING ON TOP OF THIS BOX", and now were merely dangling crushed pieces of cardboard. Of course this merited a close inspection of my 3K worth of vinyl. I quickly noticed that all of the boxes which had been neatly stacked, and secured by the distributor, were now all smashed, and covered in dirt, footprints, gouges, scrapes, and scuffs of every kind. I opened the topmost box and careful slid the contents out only to find that the previously mentioned funk was present, in it's entirety, inside the box as well. My thought process is; if the first box of stuff is messed up, the rest is as well. I concluded my inspection, went back inside and spoke with the manager, and assistant man.of the building department, who asked me to list for them all of the individual items in the order that were damaged. WTF? ARE YOU SERIOUS?!? You guys completely butcher a 3k special order, that completely screws me on my job, not to mention me getting paid, and you want me to go sort through the order to determine what YOU screwed up? Have these morons lost their minds, or did they never have them??? I calmly said; "No, I'm not doing your job for you. You can sort out the order". They then asked if I simply wanted them to re-order the entire shipment, and I replied yes absolutely. I asked if they could put a rush on it since this was their fault, and they stated they would see what they could do, and call me to let me know, as soon as they knew something. I had to call back the Asst. Man. the following morning to see what the deal was, and he says he went through the ENTIRE order, and can find nothing wrong with any of it. Again, WTF??? what about the whole box of crap I left next to the pallet that was all damaged? I hear, "oh, I must. have missed that"even the he'd just told me that he had reviewed the entire order, from the list. I'm then told that he will re-order those pieces only, get it rushed in, and he will call me back as soon as he has a delivery date.......................A week goes by, and I call in to find out where the hell my order is, only to find out that yes, my 5 pieces were ordered. They will take 3 weeks to get, even though the original order only took 1 week,but Oops they screwed up yet again, and put the rest of the original order in the bargain bin, and now it's all screwed up, and the entire order has to be replaced. Never before have I dealt with this level of incompetence, lack of professionalism, or outright disrespect of others time, and resources. It should further be duly noted that throughout this entire process, I have yet to receive even the slightest inkling of an apology. In fact, I am now wondering if it's Menards policy never to apologize to their customers. IF you can go in and shop the store without assistance of any kind, you might be OK, but I wouldn't count on it! read more