Their own website says they are open until 3 on Saturdays. When I pulled up to their locked gate at 2:15, I was annoyed and laid on the horn. There happened to be an employee there, who called out "We close at 11 on Saturdays."
I said "Your website says 3!"
He said, "Naw, it's 11." (Not "Sorry for the inconvenience, I'll tell the right person that our website needs to be updated.") Like as if to say, "If you were anybody we cared about, you'd already know our hours."
If you are not a big local contractor and already a friend of theirs, do yourself a favor and make your purchase at Home Depot. You will be doing Valley Lumber a favor too, because they don't want to be bothered. And, at Home Depot, you find regular people just like yourself working there, and they treat you with respect.
I would rather support a local, family-owned business than a mega-corporation such as Home Depot. But in this case, "family-owned, second-generation" just means good old boys. And chances are you are not in the good-old-boys club. I know I'm not. read more