What do you expect when you spend thousands of dollars in a store? - that they would treat you with some respect and help you find the stuff you want to buy. Every shopper should hear our horror story - we spent more than $5000 in this home depot in the past 1-2 weeks, and we had the worst experience ever.
First, we went there on an evening during a working day. We had to buy a bunch of appliances and other stuff (around $4000 worth). We struggled to find anybody in the store to even look our way - on a working day!!. We spent half an hour just standing in the middle of the store waiting for one of the sales people to see us and help us. None did. In the end one lady came halfheartedly to us and helped us get some of the stuff we needed before bolting away midway.
That day we ended up buying around $4000 worth of stuff from this store. The people in the appliances section were slightly more warm than the other employees. They showed no interest even when we selected multiple large expensive appliances from them. Considering the empty aisles around the appliances section, I would think they need to be very happy somebody is coming in and buying stuff from them.
Did I mention the worst delivery/ install experience ever? - two guys who had no idea about how to install the appliances came home and bolted as soon as they could. We had to install the appliances ourselves after asking someone else for help.
One thing is for sure - we will never, ever, ever use home depot at any location to get any appliance which needs to be delivered and installed. I called up their customer support and told them about the extremely bad installation experience. People go to best buy, lowes, anybody else - their installers have no idea how to hookup the appliances.
Recently we went there to buy shades. We met the worst, most impolite, disinterested sales person in the shades section who treated us pretty badly and tried to sell us some custom shades which were way too expensive. We did not understand half of what she said and we thought she was slightly drunk from the unintelligible manner in which she was talking to us. She did not want to know what we wanted to buy - because we already knew exactly what we wanted. She just wanted to say what she wanted without trying to understand what we were saying. And she used swear words like "shit" around us.
Where do these people come from? the twilight zone?
We ended up buying more than a thousand dollars worth of shades from the store - but again no interest from the employees to customers who were spending quite a good amount of money here.
Frankly I think these employees are definitely racist. Maybe the Hannaford down the road (a despicable place) rubs off on the home depot as well.
In this modern world, such behavior tarnishes the reputation of a respectable company and if anybody needs to feel ashamed it is the people who behave like this - because they are basically tarnishing the reputation of the people in this town and the state. Remember guys, people go back to their home countries and tell other people about all these incidents - and who looks bad? - not the people at the receiving end of racism, but the guys who actually behave like this. And this bad reputation stays on for years - even when people have changed.
Home Depot please do something about these employees who have no idea how to treat customers. We originally came from California where Home Depot is a well respected store and brand. The local home depot here is a disgrace to this name. There are many good and genuinely nice employees - however these few really bad, employees give the entire company a bad name.
I eventually went to Lowes for the blinds. They had levolor blinds but it took them a week to get the one blind they did not have and get all of them cut. Another week for the guy to schedule the install. But atleast they were more friendly. Got around $1000 work from lowes so far and more work remaining. Home Depot must have lost around $3000 of business from me so far. read more