The Home Depot

Ordered an item on line, paid for the item. 31 in stock according to the Home Depot website.
Got a phone call from the store, sorry we don’t have that, do you want to upgrade/​pay more money?
Are you kidding me. I want what I ordered, you showed it in stock on your website. Find your inventory and sell it to your customers.
Supposedly they issued me a refund, I hope they did… I am one unhappy Home Depot ex customer. They get 1 last chance at their Countryside store… or I am done with Home «we have stock, oh wait, we’ll take your money, and no we don’t have your stock»

No help here with anything. No employees, very disinterested if you can find any. Biggest complaint is the parking and entrance. No crosswalk markings. Cars go flying by the entrance without stopping for any pedestrians Single orange stop sign? Accident waiting to happen!

This is from my experience with the kids workshop only.
I registered my girl scout troop online and received notices about the event. But when I got here it was unorganized chaos. No one was registered, no aprons, not enough workstations, not enough employees helping (leading parents to have to help leaving even less room for kids). I had heard from other troops that Home Depot had great workshops and that they had great times. We teach our girl scouts to be independent. This was a mess. I will never bring a troop here again. Its so not worth it. I would rather go to the Dupage Children’s Museum for their workshop. Perhaps if they staggered the set ups to accomodate the amount of people, or if they looked at registrations they would have enough space. But right now it was just a big mess. This needs to be revamped.

Good assortment of plants.
Usually have what you need. Usual merchandise.
Free parking lot.

Another option if you don’t find what you are looking for at Menards. This one seems a bit smaller than most Home Depots. The cashier was nice.

I really hate going to this Home Depot, but it is the closest one. You can never find anyone to help, and when you do find someone, they are zero help. I can find what I want only half the time. The other half of the time, they might have the thing I want, but in a busted package, or they are out of stock.

my home store

Stuff needs a fixin?
I was in the process of laying down some new flooring and was on the hunt for supplies.
My first stop was Menard’s but when we couldn’t locate what we needed, we headed here.
It’s a small location which makes it easier to find stuff and find it we did!
We were in and out and when it comes to home improvement stores, that’s how I like the relationship to be.

I had two missions at Home Depot, rent a panel van and buy an few items. Jose in tool rental was really awesome and helpful! When i was shopping-​Colin helped me find the utility sink I needed and loaded it into my cart. After that I went to the garden center where Rocky helped me load a flat bed with the heavier items I needed, showed me I could check out faster in the garden center and then helped me load my car. What an awesome store, thanks guys!!!

Typically, prior to shopping at Home Depot, I take a xanax and make sure I have a co-​pilot to push the cart, effectively eliminating any homicidal instincts that the Despot may bring out in me. Shopping there is generally an exercise in frustration — a trip to ye Despot can send me into a tailspin almost as fast as my older sister belittling me.
Well, I’ve found the Home Depot version of the Promised Land and it’s just a short drive away in Cicero. Parking lot? Spacious and non-​aggro. Staff? Friendly, available and, perhaps the most stunning of all… they actually know where stuff is!!! Stock? Lots of it… lots and lots and lots of it.
Furthermore, this location has all kinds of goodies that they don’t have in the city. Among the items carried here that you can’t find in the city (or at least I couldn’t 4 days ago at the Elston location) are… inexpensive doormats, very convenient BUCKETS of rock salt as opposed to bags, spray paint in every color of the rainbow, a far, far more interesting selection of space heaters/​fake fireplaces, ladders and step stools that I’ve never seen in the city stores, a cornucopia of work gloves… it’s endless. They are hiding all the good stuff out here, but now I’m onto them. Heh.
1 star of for the extra bizarre layout of this location and for the unbelievably rude employee babysitting the self-​checkout. Thanks for ignoring my plea for assistance and making me lift that enormous pail of join compound onto the scanner even though you were sitting a foot away from me (ok, GR actually did the lifting, but still) with that handy scanning tool and for belittling and yelling at other customers that were having trouble. Nice mouth, lady, did they send you out here from the North Avenue location?
Practically perfect, at least for a Home Depot.