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Bought at Lowes two 4'x8' panels (one masonite, the other a whiteboard) for a project at home.
My cuts were done for free but that's not why I bought them at Lowes. The sign on the saw at HD said cuts on panels and no cuts less than 12". Huh? This is hard to do?
Lowes had essentially the same type of "wall saw" but the guy had no problem cutting 10" off one side and 3/4" from the other. If I had to clear out the garage, set up the saw horses and get my saw I'd have been another hour at home futzing with it all.
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Lowes always gives me a 10% military discount, not Home Depot. That would make it Lowes 2, Home Depot 0
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Does Lowe's have a cull lumber area? I love getting usable pieces of wood for 50 cents each.
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At the new Lowes here in town, I went shopping for a low-end gas grill. The salesman said, "Come with me," and took me to the roof where they had a bunch of last-year's models marked down 50%. They were the same as the current ones, except they sat outside for the winter. Great deal.
/Mr Lynn
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He's got stuff stashed up in the roof? So that guy was the Phantom of the Hardware Store!
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I was trying to buy an inexpensive wooden toilet seat and Target was all out. Then I went to Home Depot and they were all out. When I said to the guy at Home Depot, what's up with wooden toilet seats, why can't I find one, he offered to sell me the $80 toilet seat for $24.99 or whatever it was the cheap one would have cost. So my most recent Home Depot experience was actually pretty good.
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I actually drive 7 extra miles to go to Lowe's to avoid the two HDs nearby. I really cannot stand HD any longer - rude or unhelpful sales people, a pricing scheme that really is not any cheaper than your typical ACE hardware store (and sometimes quite a bit more expensive!) for small items and hardware and just a general lack of enthusiasm. I would love to see a competitor do them in or have them bought out by a company that cares.
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The self checkout at Lowe's is probably 10x faster than at Home Depot, at least around here. The lame program at HD is so slow, you scan your first item (screwdriver for example) and put it in the bag, grab the next thing ready to scan and the terminal is like "one screwdriver. $3.99. Please put your screwdriver into the bagging area." And you've already done that, so you wait and try to scan the next thing. After a little bit it will scan the next thing and you repeat this process. Just pray you don't annoy it though, or it will make you remove everything from the bagging area.
They probably don't want people making smaller than 12" cuts for safety reasons as it may be difficult to secure the small edge piece in their rig. Also so that people don't ask them to cut up a 4x8' sheet into 96 1" wide strips.
