is your local Home Depot severely incompetent?

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Hit and miss. Online said store had 4" sheet metal dryer duct. I show up and the clerk scanned the shelf with "The Phone." Called the manager and discussed for 3 minutes, then said stock is on the delivery truck that just arrived. Won't be on the shelf for maybe 3 hours (after closing time). I went to another store and got it. I was in the store a week later and they only had 3' lengths, not the 5' that the website said they had.

Still better than HomeBase. IIRC, they stocked items for building codes in their home state that were incompatible with codes in California.