Home Depot Rant #476,352,939

[Skyco]

I wonder what they do with all the real junk stuff nobody will buy? It amuses me to see the same 2x4 with a 90 degree twist and a 30 degree bend in the rack week after week...do they really think someone will buy it I just bought about 16 sheets of 4x8 1 inch thick foam insulation...I swear about 2/3 of the stack were damaged to the point I wouldn't take them. So where does all the stuff go that is rejected? It must be a huge place wherever it is

 

[tallyho8]

I wonder what they do with all the real junk stuff nobody will buy? It amuses me to see the same 2x4 with a 90 degree twist and a 30 degree bend in the rack week after week...do they really think someone will buy it I just bought about 16 sheets of 4x8 1 inch thick foam insulation...I swear about 2/3 of the stack were damaged to the point I wouldn't take them. So where does all the stuff go that is rejected? It must be a huge place wherever it is

Before Home Depot ran them out of business, we had a couple of West Building Material stores here. They sold their regular 2x4s etc for regular price and sold their "seconds" at a discount and their real bad ones, they called po-boy studs and sold them for half price. Strange thing, they always ran out of the po-boys first.

Our Home Depot keeps putting the picked-over junk wood on top of the pile and trying to sell it for regular price. Some people buy it because they don't want to move half the stack of wood to get to the good ones. When they get in a shipment and don't have any room to put it inside because the pile is full of junk wood, then they throw the junk wood in the dumpster. It sure seems like they would do better to sell warped, scratched, dented stuff at a discount, but they never do. It is against their policy.

 

[Bird]

It is against their policy.

Home Depot is certainly not alone with that type of policy; all or nothing. Awhile back I was in our Walmart Supercenter very early in the morning when they had almost no customers. A young fellow was stocking in the produce section where I had gone to get some asparagus. He was taking some bundles off and putting others up. When I asked why he was taking those bundles off, he said they had one broken spear of asparagus in each of those bundles and wouldn't sell. I told him I'd sure buy them if he'd give a little bit of a discount, but he said he couldn't do that; had to throw them in the garbage.

 

[Soundguy]

Heck.. they could have disassembled one bad bundle, and then replaced out spears in all the others, and then thrown away the one bad bundle with all the broke spears?!?

soundguy

 

[Tig]

The wood quality was the worst I've ever seen. Hopefully that's not the case at most local lumber yards.

Take the bad ones back. You wouldn't accept poor quality from any other store so why accept it from the lumber yard. I once rejected 44 sheets of tongue and groove plywood. That lumber yard was close by and cheap but their wood was always damaged by poor handling.
They told me they burn the bad wood but I later saw them cutting the damaged edges off tongue and groove plywood so they could try to sell it as regular ply. What an outfit that place was.
Around here it's not uncommon for contractors to order 10 to 20% more wood than they need and then send the bad stuff back for credit.

 

[Bird]

Heck.. they could have disassembled one bad bundle, and then replaced out spears in all the others, and then thrown away the one bad bundle with all the broke spears?!?

soundguy

That would have been too sensible, Chris, and would have taken a few minutes more. Instead, he was just throwing them in the garbage.

 

[RobJ]

Well, that's what I did. See the post above yours. The wood quality was the worst I've ever seen. Hopefully that's not the case at most local lumber yards. It sounds like many have better one's than we have here.

I didn't read all the posts but maybe there is another local yard. Actually Lowes will usually deliver to. I had planned on hauling up all the lumber for the weekend place because we have a sweet account at a local lumber yard. Hmm, 500 studs, 100 2x8, yikes!! BIL says get it local. How sweet that was. Even just a load of siding for the garage they delivered for free. 160 sheets of sheetrock, they sent 3 guys. Oh gents, can you place a pile here, over there, then the other 40 sheets upstairs, thanks!! Yes I gave then a nice tip...WELL worth it. A pic of the eaten into pile of lumber I did NOT have to move twice! Another nice pile for the garage. Then a special delivery for the siding. Delivery and unload!! Sweet!

 

[Soundguy]

That would have been too sensible, Chris, and would have taken a few minutes more. Instead, he was just throwing them in the garbage.

man.. I bet a pig farmer or chix farmer would love to get ahhold o f the bad produce instead of it being wasted..

soundguy

 

[WVBill]

man.. I bet a pig farmer or chix farmer would love to get ahhold o f the bad produce instead of it being wasted..

soundguy

I was just reading an article the other day about folks these days who live "minimal" or some such description. They're "normal" people with decent jobs who are dedicated "dumpster divers" - know when WalMart for example throws out their "damaged" asparagus and make a plan to be there right after that time - then "dive the dumpster". They say they get over half their food from this.

More power to them - but I wouldn't want to eat something that had been in the garbage.

WVBill

 

[Soundguy]

I tend to agree. Though i've got no problem feeding others leftovers to my animals!

soundguy