2021 Home Depot's deals/sales/clearance thread
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the ego products dropped in price again in my area. the string trimmers WITH a battery are down to $90, backpack blower with the big battery was $150, blower and trimmer kit with battery was $140, and the bare tools were $50 for the hedge trimmer and $100 for the 14" chainsaw. that's all i can remember seeing, sorry no pictures.
Bighead38
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That would be nice but showing none local.
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LoveOldIron
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I was in the area. Stopped at the Bustleton Ave store
oftentimes when walmart RTVs products or merely puts them in the back for next season (ie. heaters/fans/ACs that carry over to next season) they rarely adjust whatever system brickseek gets its info from. thus you will have large numbers 'in stock' on brickseek but no one will even bother looking for the items. Sometimes they pull the items before the price drops so there is no chance to buy at the lower price without prior knowledge and doing the old RR...
There's definitely a theft problem at more stores than you realize.
A tool manager at one HD store says they're calling the police constantly as people brazenly walk right out of the store without paying for stuff.
A tool manager at a different HD store showed me a cart full of empty cardboard (outer) boxes for expensive tools. Seems that people are taking expensive items, putting them into the packaging of cheaper items, and running that through self-checkout. Not sure how they adjust for that in inventory.
They've spent money to install locking chain link barriers at several of the HD stores around here. I doubt they'd be doing that if they didn't need to.
Of course, there are plenty of items that are listed as "sold out" on the Lowe's site that I've found on BS, and physically in the store, but that doesn't mean the stealing isn't happening.
Mike
A tool manager at one HD store says they're calling the police constantly as people brazenly walk right out of the store without paying for stuff.
A tool manager at a different HD store showed me a cart full of empty cardboard (outer) boxes for expensive tools. Seems that people are taking expensive items, putting them into the packaging of cheaper items, and running that through self-checkout. Not sure how they adjust for that in inventory.
They've spent money to install locking chain link barriers at several of the HD stores around here. I doubt they'd be doing that if they didn't need to.
Of course, there are plenty of items that are listed as "sold out" on the Lowe's site that I've found on BS, and physically in the store, but that doesn't mean the stealing isn't happening.
Mike
In san francisco, any theft less than $900 won't get police response. People actually steal stuff and then return them for cash.
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Indexmill
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I can't return **** at Lowes nor Home Depot without the receipt.
TTMotorsports
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Same thing happened to me year ago since I was doing a remodel and would return stuff for gift cards to buy more stuff. They flagged me saying no returns without a receipt. Caused a huge hassle for them since I would bring in a plastic bag with all my receipts and make their employee sort through them to find the correct one. They want to hassle me. I'll hassle them and take their employee's time, aka company money. Haha
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Im not quick enough to search by store to see if ours have any. Where was this Wyze Starter Pack found?
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I too like to be abusive towards employees because I don't agree with their employers policies and don't feel like acting like a responsible adult by keeping track of my own purchases.
TTMotorsports
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I tried to reason with them and the only hardware store in town is home depot so where else would I get stuff to return to home depot to make money??? The manager agree'd with me and didnt' care about the returns without receipts but corporate had an issue and I did do it a few times with my passport card instead of my Drivers license for the form of ID since my DL# was flagged obviously. Luckly it happend at the end of a long project so only did the receipt thing 2 or 3 times.
Indexmill
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Home Depot and Lowes now require a receipt for returns. Get over it. Keep your receipts in a box in the garage. It's not hard. With people ripping off **** and then trying to "return" it for cash, how can you blame them. You would do the same thing in your own business.
Ilikeike
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I just give them the credit card I used for the item, they swipe and find it and credit my card back, never been an issue and just did this 3 days ago/Monday.
TTMotorsports
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Yeah I did this in 2012 so i'm sure it's been updated since then and now I can return for store credit no problem
Just enter you email for the receipt when you check out. Then it’s always in your email.
Or sign up for a ProXtra account, and link your debit/credit cards. Then when you pay with one of those cards you will get an emailed receipt automatically and the receipt will be in the account as well.
Or sign up for a ProXtra account, and link your debit/credit cards. Then when you pay with one of those cards you will get an emailed receipt automatically and the receipt will be in the account as well.
SD had a post last week for the 2-inch cable ties being $2.60, but your local store may have the 3" and 4" cable ties for $0.83.
3 in. Reusable Heavy-Duty Clamp Cable Tie, Green
4 in. Reusable Heavy-Duty Clamp Cable Tie, Green (max diameter for the zip tie is 4.5")
3 in. Reusable Heavy-Duty Clamp Cable Tie, Green
4 in. Reusable Heavy-Duty Clamp Cable Tie, Green (max diameter for the zip tie is 4.5")
Any tips for quickly checking clearance prices at Home Depot?
In-store, the only way to be the first to discover a big price drop is to scan it at checkout. That's annoying for checking prices on bulky items, or impossible for locked up items.
Brickseek let's you view clearance price drops at Lowe's, but for HD it just says "Clearance".
The Walmart app let's you scan a barcode and see the clearance price, but the HD app often acts like the clearance item no longer exists.
Th HD automated telephone answering system doesn't match the price at the register. It either tells me a higher price than at checkout, or no longer recognizes the clearance item's Internet #.
TTMotorsports
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What I have found and have done at Home Depot is to write down the SKU of items you see that are interested in and then go to the pro desk and you can type them in on their computer to see the prices. I have done this a few times and found $0.01 items. If bored and have nothing to do and there write down or take photos of the clearance tags and spend a few minutes at the Pro desk, or have a friend at pro desk and call them to tell them info over the phone and if its a deal just put in cart and proceed to self checkout.
Thanks. The local store is always busy, so that computer is always in use. Some people take so long that I wonder if they're designing and building a new house from scratch.
I may need to try stopping at the store in the evenings.
I think that thread is why the store removed access to the computers for a while.
TTMotorsports
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OK so question for you guys. My brother bought a dewalt lawn mower and they had 5 in stock, 4 were opened and had the batteries stolen out of them. So he got the 6th new unopened one and the employee told him that they had to famage and throw away the rest of them. Have you guys heard of this? He tried to buy it without battery but it was a no go from the manager even.
2manytools
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That would be up to manager discretion. Usually a store has a budget for junking things out like that. So they while it seems they do it without thinking (and im sure there are times the dont), they usually come out ahead junking it, and receiving credit that way. So many things don't make sense in retail, but it's how it goes
TTMotorsports
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Yeah the kits were like $400 total each so junking 4 isn't cheap. He offered to buy it for $100 less since he didn't need battery but no go. O well their loss
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I worked retail way back when and it was astounding the amount of merchandise that went to the dumpster because it was more "cost effective".
drwheels
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I have had managers say they would rather throw away than sell at half of .03 price.Most of them are hard headed.
I'm puzzled, it seems like people who know nothing about the business find it difficult to accept that the store loses money if they sell the item that they don't lose if they don't sell it.
Perhaps the point people don't know or understand is that the store receives full credit from the manufacturer for the destroyed merchandise, but must provide proof of the destruction or discard to get the credit. For example, if the store paid $50 for an item that retails for $150, they are better off to destroy it and get the $50 credit than to sell it to someone for $45.
The reason the manufacturers do this is to save money, it costs more to ship the items back than the products are worth.
kasander
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Maybe for items that the manufacturer is requiring the store to pull...
If the store pulls the item just because it is out of season or not selling, I find it hard to believe the manufacturer would give them a refund for destroying the product.
If this is the case, this is a poor business practice all around.
AaroNX
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A lot of it is covered under insurance as well.
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