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Originally Posted by Dee8go
I intend to have finished installing my new kitchen sink by lunchtime today. I thought I'd be done by bedtime last night. I was finished, but the job wasn't done by 10:00 last night. Home Depot is the poorest excuse for a hardware store I've ever seen!
I've got to find a REAL hardware store close to my house and start patronizing it from now on. There just aren't many of them left.
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Murphy's Law on Home Improvement requires you to double the numerical time estimate and increase the duration to the next period of time. (Ex. a 1 hour job will take 2 days, a 1/2 day job will take 1 week, etc.)
Our local True Value Hardware store is a testament to enduring that initial hit when a Lowe's or HD comes to town. He said the first year sucked but after that 1st year they've managed to F everything up to the point where customers come to him first. He's gotten so much business back plus more that he's comfortable enough to send customers to HD if for some reason he doesn't have an item they need or can't wait until their next delivery to special order it. There is a lot of gloom and doom when a big box comes to town but if the local store can't withstand that first hit they may not have been long for the business world anyway. The only thing they really offer is longer hours.