how come staff at box stores know nothing baout their products?!?!?!

[Midniteoyl]

They ask precisely 'cause you look lost.. er, deep in thought..

I ALWAYS have to pace the whole friggin store just to find someone. Like Walmart, they see you and run the other way

 

[dmccarty]

They ask precisely 'cause you look lost.. er, deep in thought..

I ALWAYS have to pace the whole friggin store just to find someone. Like Walmart, they see you and run the other way

I don't mind it much when they see me wondering the aisles hunting. But when I am sitting there trying to fit a doodad on a thingy me bob, I surely don't need their help. I am just looking for the one that fits. Really, what do they expect to do, push me out of the way, so they can find the doodad that fits? :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

I have not done this at Lowes but I swear I did it at Best Buy. I kept my cell phone in my hand and was wearing my Bluetooth headset. Whenever the employee saw me, locked on to me and started on an intercept course to talk to me, I would just start talking on the phone. Except nobody was on the phone but me! :laughing::laughing::laughing: It was the perfect Electronic Counter Measure(ECM).

To be honest, at first the wifey was on the phone when I noticed that the cell was creating a force field to keep the sales people away from me. We where trying to decide which size TV would fit in a given space and no employee in the world could help. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[Bird]

I think one of you guys must be bad luck. In seven and a half years, I've had no problem with any of the locks in this house, and right after I said that we also have Schlage locks I thought I'd found that my wife had left the door open from the house into the garage, but the latch bolt would not retract to let the door go all the way closed. I discovered that the only way you could close the door all the way was to jerk down on the lever and hold it until you closed the door. So off to the locksmith; $8.66 including tax for the part to fix it.

 

[Scooby074]

The electronic lock in my above post is a Schlage. The one on my house, my barn and my father's place. So another 3 votes for Schlage Locks.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

The electronic lock in my above post is a Schlage. The one on my house, my barn and my father's place. So another 3 votes for Schlage Locks.

I assume the thing takes batteries? What happens when the batteries go kablooey when you're on vacation?

 

[Scooby074]

I assume the thing takes batteries? What happens when the batteries go kablooey when you're on vacation?

The default state is locked.

There is a key to unlock the door in the event the electronic part doesnt work or the batteries die. It has an alarm to warn that the batts are getting low so you can replace before failure.

Vacation? whats that?

 

[aczlan]

I assume the thing takes batteries? What happens when the batteries go kablooey when you're on vacation?

The backup key...

Aaron Z

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I had the choice of Lowes or a very large and old family owned Tru-Value today when looking for clear plastic lines to by-pass the oil cooler on the Polaris Magnum 325 ATV so we can bring up the oil pressure by hand or electric start and see the Marvel Mystery Oil or MMO flowing with the spark plug removed as a shop project testing MMO as an engine flush. We also wanted to replace some other clear vent lines.

The big issue was the in/out hose nipples were 3/8 and 1/2 to the cooler so we could not just grab one size hole and loop it back to the inlet nipple. The Tru-Value guy helping me was well past the normal retirement age and had one hand. When I told him what I wanted (carried the oil cooler into the store because it was lighter than the 650 pound ATV) he found the two size of clear lines I needed and before cutting stated he would look for a 3/8 to 1/2" splicer. It took him a couple minutes but found one that was $1.39 so we went back and cut the lines off of the rolls.

I did expect this outcome but expected Lowes would have been a hit/miss at best and my time was short.

When we got our high end 12" step ladder for washing the motorhome roof I looked at Lowes in another town but stopped by this same Tru-Value (Lowes built across the road from it) and found the same ladder for $2 less but would have bought it if it was $5 more vs driving across the street to deal with a big box because they are so hit/miss vs this Tru-Value store where I have been shopping for well over 50 years.

 

[murphy1244]

That's the brand we have throughout the house and shop, and all locks keyed the same.

That's exactly what I was trying to do.

 

[Danno1]

There is a key to unlock the door in the event the electronic part doesnt work or the batteries die.

So you still have to carry keys...



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