The Lowes by my house has the same problem. I moved into a bank repo about a month after the Lowes opened. needless to say, I'm a very very familiar face to all the employees at Lowes. They were open til 10pm. Seeing that I have a day job I was remodeling the house every night after work and would close the place down on a regular basis. then one day, without notice they changed their hours to closing at 9pm.

Their newest thing is to be completely incompetent. I've walked out of their mad the last 4 times I've been in their because the new batch of employees have no clue what they are doing. example, I was in their last week looking for some 3" corrugated, slotted pipe to make a French drain. should be easy. They had rolls of 4" corrugated, slotted pipe in 100ft and 50ft lengths, and 4" corrugated pipe (no slots) in 100ft and 50ft lengths, 3" corrugated, (no slots) in 100ft and 50ft lengths, and a sign for 3" corrugated, slotted pipe in 100ft lengths. I ask the guy, "do you have 3" corrugated, slotted pipe in 50ft, I don't see a sign for it" reply "ummmm, well?? is their a sign for it?" I start to get mad, "ok how about the 100ft roll you do have a sign for?" reply "yeah its right here" and points to the 4"... "NO, 3"..." reply "yeah... oh... ummm... let me call someone" and he walks off. 15 min later I left the store.

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