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Post by rdtwo »

Spooky23 wrote: post #286
jakearmitage wrote: post #72

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HomeDepot's ecommerce is a joke. Not only the shopping experience is poor, they treat logistics as if they were doing you a favor. And, on top of all that, you get damaged items. I made 7 purchases and all 7, in different periods of time, had to be returned or replaced. Same for Lowe's. There's a reason people shop on Amazon. Other than BestBuy, no other retailer "gets" ecommerce.

That’s crazy. Target smokes Amazon for most things these days, especially with pickup. Ditto for NewEgg and Walmart. Amazon is increasingly overrated, they peaked a decade ago and have declined to a warehouse club/flea market.

Walmart website is still stuck in 08. I have to search for things 3 different ways and even then I can’t seem to get one search page to list products of the same type

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Post by rdtwo »

richjdsmith wrote: post #227
ebg13 wrote: post #23

I tried ordering some things from Home Depot the other day, and they silently cancelled half of my order while still charging me the same amount for delivery from the store and while saying that some things can only be delivered from a warehouse and that some things can only be delivered from a specific store and that delivery from each store has a $45 minimum purchase before they'll even consider delivery despite th…

Same story happened to me last Friday. I put in an order on their website, met their minimum delivery order amount, and yet when I got the confirmation email an hour later, I found out 3/4 of my items were being shipped to my nearest (35min, 60km) home depot. I called customer service and was told it was impossible to change the order so all get delivered, and that it was impossible to cancel the order. My only recou…

I’ve had that happen too but I intentionally did it to get a discounted battery for my riobi drill. I got the batch discount for multiple items had the stuff I didn’t want sent to store and just had to show up to return it

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Post by Blackthorn »

jakearmitage wrote: post #72
ebg13 wrote: post #23

I tried ordering some things from Home Depot the other day, and they silently cancelled half of my order while still charging me the same amount for delivery from the store and while saying that some things can only be delivered from a warehouse and that some things can only be delivered from a specific store and that delivery from each store has a $45 minimum purchase before they'll even consider delivery despite th…

HomeDepot's ecommerce is a joke. Not only the shopping experience is poor, they treat logistics as if they were doing you a favor. And, on top of all that, you get damaged items. I made 7 purchases and all 7, in different periods of time, had to be returned or replaced. Same for Lowe's. There's a reason people shop on Amazon. Other than BestBuy, no other retailer "gets" ecommerce.

Zoro. Which is a division of Grainger, iirc.

Their website isn't the best for finding things, but I've never had any issues with an order from them, ever. And I've bought a lot of stuff.

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Post by FireBeyond »

dexterdog wrote: post #383
FireBeyond wrote: post #311

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> writing this from Oregon, where we can't pump our own gas I thought that got changed a couple of years ago?

Not that I know of. And NJ is still full serve only as well.

https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/03/want-to-pump-yo...

This must have been what I was thinking of - I guess it didn't pass. I live in Washington but regularly journey down for Trail Blazers games.

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Post by boomboomsubban »

veggieburglar wrote: post #468
boomboomsubban wrote: post #455

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If you picked up a hundred dollar bill in the same situation and didn't have any intention of returning it, would you consider that stealing? My definition of theft doesn't presume it was legally or morally wrong, so many innocent actions would still be theft.

Return it to who? If you saw someone drop it, sure. If you know the owner of the hundred dollar bill, sure. But otherwise? I think you just have an odd definition of theft. From Merriam Webster: 1. a : the act of stealing specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it 1. b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property 2 : a sto…

>If you saw someone drop it, sure. If you know the owner of the hundred dollar bill, sure. But otherwise?

Presumably the owner would retrace their steps and try to find what was lost. Most people would do this for a hundred dollars, but you can also imagine a child doing it for a quarter. Is it theft if you say you haven't seen it? How about if you never run into the person but intended to say you haven't seen it?

At what point it becomes "theft" is tenuous at best. I'd rather call many things "theft" and withhold judgment until I learn the details as it limits instantaneous judgments upon hearing of a thief.

As for your definition, at what point something becomes unlawful is never clear, and nobody's actual definitions for concepts ever mirror a dictionary definition.

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Post by RussianCow »

FireBeyond wrote: post #311
blacksmith_tb wrote: post #293

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One possible reason is that eliminates a whole category of unskilled labor? (full disclosure, writing this from Oregon, where we can't pump our own gas to preserve another category of unskilled labor jobs - except right now, thanks COVID-19?) I personally would probably prefer to have a human checker for that reason, I don't notice much improvement in speed or ease of checking out when I do it myself, there's just a…

> writing this from Oregon, where we can't pump our own gas I thought that got changed a couple of years ago?

Only in rural counties with a total population of less than 40,000 people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/0...

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Post by zerd »

larrik wrote: post #47

Right when this all was starting, I had finally chosen a bass guitar I wanted. I decided to try and support a non-Amazon business in GuitarCenter (the local music shops focus a lot more on school band instruments). So, I order online, and pick the "pick up at store" option, since it says they are in stock. I show up, and an hour later they figure out that they don't have it in stock, they only have the floor model (w…

And I got a used managed switch from Amazon. It was neatly packaged, but no plastic, strips etc, and the IP was different, and default user/pass didn't work. Factory reset worked though, so I didn't want to send it back and wait for another one as I needed it now.

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Post by asadhaider »

mod wrote: post #145
dawnerd wrote: post #124

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Anecdotal but I've cancelled a TON of orders and haven't been banned. Returns I can see, but definitely not cancelled orders.

> I've cancelled a TON of orders Out of curiosity, why?

Might depend on when you cancel, if you cancel after the order's been dispatched then they return it to the warehouse if possible. That may be treated the same as a 'customer return'. I've done this maybe twice.

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Post by Animats »

djrogers wrote: post #277
Animats wrote: post #207

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Costco is still shipping. I just ordered about $135 worth of stuff, including fruit, bread, milk, and hand cleaner, for delivery today.

That depends entirely where you live - around me, this is aboslutely not true for all intents and purposes (no delivery windows available, or no products available, or both).

Redwood City, CA.

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Post by monadic2 »

ckosidows wrote: post #268
monadic2 wrote: post #254

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FWIW I just ordered a bunch of shit from home depot, it arrived faster than amazon could deliver it and everything I was looking for was in stock. I've also never had any major complaints in person with unhelpful staff—just the opposite. My only gripe with them is the self checkout you mentioned (why am I doing the store's work for them?), which certainly is not going to improve if Amazon moves into the retail space.…

Perhaps it's different with a store like Home Depot where products are much bigger and perhaps harder to scan, but do people actually dislike self checkouts? "Doing the work for the store" seems like such a non-argument to me. I would much prefer to scan things myself as I feel I can often do it faster, and I don't have to wait in a line if the store only has two cashiers staffed at a certain time. You pump your own…

Personally, I don’t mind driving through NJ for just this reason, traffic aside.
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