I hesitated to write this review as I've been a long-time customer at this store BUT...the customer service, on more than one occasion SUCKS (and by reading these reviews, I'm not the only one who very obviously feels this way)! I went in yesterday to at least schedule a carpet measure for my home knowing it would take awhile to order the carpet and actually receive it (before I had to schedule ANOTHER date to install it). The man who works in that dept was sitting behind the desk doing something with his phone (the "usual", as I see these people in this dept always sitting behind this desk on their phones and/or talking to each other as others have noted in their negative reviews). He did schedule a measure date for me but it went all downhill after that. I asked about the "contractor carpet special" promoted at the Pro Desk of which he said he knew nothing about (you are a "carpet guy", get up off your behind and LEARN about Home Depot carpet promos, oh my...lazy); but then he proceeded to tell me the carpet featured in that promo wasn't as good as the one he was showing me. When I did go back to the Pro Desk I looked at the carpet and sure enough, it was the EXACT same carpet if not extremely similar (27 oz weight, etc). The difference? The promo was $1.99 for carpet, padding and installation and what this guy was pushing on me was $1.89 for just carpet and installation...padding would have been around $1.00 more. So, why would I not buy this promo special except that was another issue. The one and only guy who sets up carpet measures was going to be on vacation and because he was "God" (at least in his mind) NOBODY else could possibly help me during the week he was going to be on vacation! Well, that isn't customer service, now is it? Because I (the CUSTOMER) was only going to be here for the next four days so I needed somebody to measure my hosue for carpet...or did I? I actually had the very same house measured for the very same rooms of carpet less than one year ago but no! According to Home Depot I needed a new measure (guess my room sizes changed int he last year??). When I asked to go over this one and only guys head (offering this promo special) I got no follow-up. I then requested for Paulette in the caret dept to call me asap to try to resolve these issues only to not receive a call for several hours. I called and said I was on my way in and lo and behold, there's Paulette talking to people who were walking in to order carpet AFTER I had been asking her to call me since almost 9am that morning. Ok, I get it that she has to talk to other customers and sell carpet (that is her job) but how about taking people "in line"? I was BEFORE these walk-ins, wasn't I? At some point wouldn't the proper way of handling this had been to call me back and discuss my carpet needs or do these people in this dept just ignore the customer who, again since 9am, was trying to talk to them, also? I just don't think this is good customer service and by reading the reviews, it appears others agree with me (esp about this carpet dept at HD). And no, it's not just this carpet dept but ALL departments at this location. I don't know what has happened but esp in the last two years customer service in this Niles store has really gone down! It SUCKS that I have to drive to Austintown or Boardman but it's truly worth dealing with the people in these other stores as opposed to this Niles location; really, really sad...used to be my fav store to go to when in this area! read more