Home Depot = Den of Thieves

Used to work for Home Depot - best training I ever have gotten - I NOW KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO WORK THE BEST DEALS AT HD ANYTIME. Their errors actually work quite well in my favor and their price matching minus 10% is so much fun to deal with. I have gotten rolls of field fence for $79.00 minus 10%, when they were marked $119.00, (Lowes hadn't updated their shelf price and I took a digital photo to prove that the price at Lowes was accurate). Bought a bunch of rolls of the wire at $48.00 per roll discount. I do the same with just about everything. Home depot is TERRIBLE at making price changes.

At Wally world they screw up as many prices low as they do high. If they screw up high I catch them and they refund and give me the item free. If hey screw up low they never know it and I rationalize it by they should be accurate in how they program their computer.

After all - on a fixed income the money is better in my pocket than theirs.

Home Depot isn't a den of theives - just a den of INCOMPETANTS and their management is the worst of the incompetants. You become management at HD by being a YES MAN, vs knowing anything. Heck one of the managers at the HD I worked at could not read a ruler, and thats a no pooper.

That's not a Home Depot exclusive, that's a universal practice at all stores that use bar codes. At least once a year some news program "uncovers" this practice. As I recall, about 20% of the items ring up higher at the register than what is displayed on the shelf.

Safeway, Giant, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, K-Mart, 7-11, Autozone, Food Lion, Kroegers, Piggly Wiggly, etc. They all do this.

Now one store I know plays an interesting game with this. If the lines are backed up, many times the manager will come out and look over your cart and make you a flat rate offer to bypass the line and get out of the store. You can take the offer and maybe get a great deal and leave now, or wait and go through the checkout. Your call.

But that same store also has the nasty habit of ringing up an item that is sitting beside the conveyor belt. They routinely have a broom laying there that they will ring up as your item. They've made a lot of money over the years on that scam.

Today I bought 7 containers of ice tea mix marked down from $3.69 to $1.70 at Publix for the bosse's soup kitchen. Publix rang them up full price. Fortunately this thread reminded me to doublecheck the receipt (T try to, but have gotten a little sloppy when rushed) They refunded the difference.
Her church feeds bewteen 80 and 120 people daily. What is sad is that about half of them are families with children where both parents work fulltime or more than fulltime- and they still have to choose between food and rent. The other half? Those are the ones that Jesus commanded us to feed.