Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Home Depot, Lowe's, Target, and Best Buy all seem to have gotten the whole "order online, pick up local" down pretty good as well. It's definitely stopped me from using Amazon a few times.

And Amazon clearly thinks that's the way to do it, since they keep flirting with setting up brick and mortar stores. The remaining stores that already have that part down should be running with it, not from it.

 

[Ryujin]

Home Depot, Lowe's, Target, and Best Buy all seem to have gotten the whole "order online, pick up local" down pretty good as well. It's definitely stopped me from using Amazon a few times.

I wouldn't put Home Depot on that list, at least not the Canadian version. Remember I mentioned businesses I've stopped dealing with? I ordered some "hobby grade" (supposed to be select) lumber from HD. It took them almost a month to send me the pickup notice, after having to pay up-front. When the stuff was brought out to my car one of the pieces was cracked and they weren't even close in colour. That's not "select."

EDIT - I should note that Amazon isn't imune, either, for a rather interesting reason. I ordered a couple of replacement UPS batteries on Amazon. I got a notification from Home Depot that the order for the batteries had been shipped. Still took 3 weeks to get them. BTW, I didn't order them from Home Depot, through Amazon. Someone had the great business plan to just order stuff from third parties and hit you with a mark-up.

 

[Scribe]

I wouldn't put Home Depot on that list, at least not the Canadian version. Remember I mentioned businesses I've stopped dealing with? I ordered some "hobby grade" (supposed to be select) lumber from HD. It took them almost a month to send me the pickup notice, after having to pay up-front. When the stuff was brought out to my car one of the pieces was cracked and they weren't even close in colour. That's not "select."

I've not had great experience with Home Depot either, on anything I've had done or ordered. Just not great.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Thanks for that.

A friend recently did a choose your adventure video on Youtube, called "Marla and the Macarons." Short and pretty trippy, in that West Coast (of Canada) way.

I'm probably going to have to do a playthrough of Night of the Nazgûl. I searched, and apparently I'm the first guy on ENWorld to mention it. That's... that's just a damn shame! It's IMO a great gamebook, from one of my top four series!

 

[RealAlHazred]

You absolutely cannot post about identifiable threads or people on Enworld. Period. This thread is not, and cannot, be a sidechannel to attack specific identifiable threads and people. If you have any question as to whether of not you are posting something that violates the rule, then don't post it. Thanks!

... But threads on other message boards are fair game. Got it!

Just kidding! Life is too short to spend a lot of it complaining!

 

[dragoner]

Curiously my response was merely to overgeek. lol

 

[Deset Gled]

I wouldn't put Home Depot on that list, at least not the Canadian version. Remember I mentioned businesses I've stopped dealing with? I ordered some "hobby grade" (supposed to be select) lumber from HD. It took them almost a month to send me the pickup notice, after having to pay up-front. When the stuff was brought out to my car one of the pieces was cracked and they weren't even close in colour. That's not "select."

EDIT - I should note that Amazon isn't imune, either, for a rather interesting reason. I ordered a couple of replacement UPS batteries on Amazon. I got a notification from Home Depot that the order for the batteries had been shipped. Still took 3 weeks to get them. BTW, I didn't order them from Home Depot, through Amazon. Someone had the great business plan to just order stuff from third parties and hit you with a mark-up.

I don't think I've ever ordered anything that had to be shipped to Home Depot. There's at least a half dozen within driving distance from me, so the job of the website is to tell me which one to go to.

 

[Ryujin]

I don't think I've ever ordered anything that had to be shipped to Home Depot. There's at least a half dozen within driving distance from me, so the job of the website is to tell me which one to go to.

During lockdown that just wasn't an option. They weren't allowing anyone inside. You had to order online and then either pick the stuff up, or have it shipped. I had no luck with either.

 

[trappedslider]

Just kidding! Life is too short to spend a lot of it complaining!

looks at this thread

 

[dbolack]

And Amazon clearly thinks that's the way to do it, since they keep flirting with setting up brick and mortar stores. The remaining stores that already have that part down should be running with it, not from it.

The place that some/many appear to be failing to me is that you can only order in stock inventory at your pickup store in many cases ( Target! ) where if I need to split, I'd rather pick it up all there and I have to assume that in cases of things in teh actual target warehouse, shipping it to the store then tagging it for customer order is a savings.