I came here three trips total. Each time ended in FAIL. Before this, the dumbest Home Depot award went to the one on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, where I asked nine different employees if they had Damp Rid, every single one said they had never heard of it and didn't know what I was talking about, and then I discovered AN ENTIRE SECTION OF DAMP RID PRODUCTS! Like how the F can you work somewhere....woops, sorry, getting off track, this is about the Duluth, Ga Home Depot located on State Bridge Road. (State Bridge is what Pleasant Hill turns into.)
I don't remember the movie, Demolition Man? ...but it was set in a future Los Angeles, where the greeting had become HelloHowAreYouImFineThankYouVeryMuch all in one breath.
This reminded me of Home Depot, where the greeting is "AreYouFindingEverythingAlright" don't confuse this with the question "Are You Finding Everything Alright?" which is something different.
So employees here will just walk right past you, regurgitating robotically their store greeting "AreYouFindingEverythingAlright" but not actually stop to see if you are finding everything alright. That is not to say that if they did stop, they would know where to find anything at all.
Visit 1
Empty store, I walk back and forth between the front and the back of the store comparing prices because not one employee knows the answer to what is on sale in the front of the store and what is not.
See, they had these heavy duty plastic shelving units on sale, but the back had similar or identical units at different prices. I wanted to know.... oh you know what, none of this is even remotely interesting. The details aren't important, the maddening incompetence is.
During this visit I see what appears to be a district manager yucking it up on a store tour, obviously not doing his damn job.
Visit 2 (week later)
I went in to have a copy of a key made. The guy had no clue what was going on and in the end, after 30 minutes, the machine jammed/broke.
Visit 3 (the following weekend)
I came to get a standard sized window blind. I don't know anything about blinds okay. After looking around for 15 minutes, I go to the front of the store to ask if someone in the blinds section could come and help me.
After 5 minutes a guy appears looking super annoyed. I give him my measurements and show him the blind. THEN HE PROCEEDS TO LIE TO MY FACE. Yes, no joke. He tells me that they do not carry this size blind, and that I should look online. No moron, if I wanted to look online then I would not have come into the f-ing store! I mean seriously WTF IS THIS? The guy walks off in a hurry back to the break room or wherever it was he came from.
How do I know he lied to my face? Well, the next day I went to the location WAY down the road on Pleasant Hill Rd. and I-85, where a guy there explained everything I ever wanted to know about blinds, AND YES they had my size blind, they had a WHOLE SECTION OF MY SIZED BLINDS!
Well, I was curious, maybe the guy at this other Home Depot really didn't have that size. So I went back to check, sure enough, THEY ALSO HAVE AN ENTIRE SECTION OF MY STANDARD SIZED BLINDS. I also found the employee, this time he was busy hitting on some woman.
Long Story short, not coming back to this location.
I asked to speak to manager and explained everything to him. Told him about all three of my visits. The manager was very, nice, very professional, and apologized, and bla bla bla.... but the nerve of that last guy, left a sour taste in my mouth. Next time maybe I'll check out Lowe's or a smaller chain store, somewhere where people know what is in their store, and want my business, just like Home Depot used to be. read more