Posted on 07/28/2021 4:50:15 PM PDT by Eddie01
FOX 2 - "You love the smell of them coming out," said Daniel Williams. "I am a little bit hungry, I love to get a hot dog."
Williams, like so many, found the aroma of cooking hot dogs wafting through the air of Home Depot stores comforting - something to count on.
Hot dogs no more at Home Depot Home Depot has pulled the plug on hot dog vendors at all Michigan stores.
"This is one of the few Home Depots that grill hot dogs not boil and they are really good," said one customer.
But customers learned on Monday they will have to buy their hotdogs elsewhere. The home improvement chain decided not to bring back their hot dog vendors.
"I'm sad about it but she is glad because I eat too many of them," quipped shopper Joe Brown, nodding to his wife.
"It was a shocker we were pretty stumped by it when we heard it," said William Pachota.
No one was more surprised than Pachota, the owner of Hot Diggitty Dog based in Livonia. In March of 2020, Covid put their hot dog Home Depot vending sales on hold.
He says just as they were getting ready to fire up the stands again at the Northville, Plymouth, and Commerce Township locations, he received a letter from Home Depot saying they will be closing all of the hotdog stands at every store in Michigan - for good.
Pachota spent the last week packing up and moving out, but he'll always have the memories of his loyal patrons.
"When you are working there and you see people coming in with smiles on their face, and everybody so happy to come there and just give you respect you appreciate when you are there," he said.
His customers are hoping Hot Diggity Dogs will open its own restaurant or at the very least, move into another big box store.
"Maybe we'll keep our fingers crossed, we're always open," he said.
A Home Depot spokesperson told FOX 2 that they want to focus on the customer and their home improvement needs, and they wish all the vendors the best.
"I eat them," said one customer. "That's not good, bring back the hot dogs Home Depot!"
But Brown says he maybe enjoyed the hot dogs too much.
"That's why she is here now, she won't let me come by myself," he quipped.
"Constant supervision you know how it goes," said Cidia Brown.
"I can go myself now - no hot dogs," Brown said.
Always had trouble saying no on my way out the door.
So good. Sad to see this end.
Never had them in PA.
But reading this brings back fond memories of the hot dog stand at Sears & Roebuck.
You’re in luck headline says ‘inside the door’.
This very sad.
Why?!
I wish there were hot dogs to eat every day.
Progressives/leftists/Covidiots are ruining everything.
And the fresh pop corn
Meat isn’t good for you, it’s cruel to animals, and it causes global warming. It also empowers the greedy capitalists who sell them. Just have a celery stick instead. Or some marijuana.
“ Progressives/leftists/Covidiots are ruining everything.”
Since Gramsci it has been a very specific thrust of Karl Marx’s socialist satanic turd.
Stalin’s useful idiots are the Left.
Never seen a hotdog vendor in a Home Depot. But then, i haven’t been in one of their stores in 5 years (or so)/ Won’t even give them online business anymore.
A decade or so ago, Home Depot was open 24/7, and sold hot dogs. I though it would be pretty hard for this civilization to progress any further.
How we have fallen.
“Never had them in PA”
King Of Prussia had them.
Costco has em.
Boiled lips and ass is more like it.
Still, I could go for a nice Grote & Weigel grilled till it splits and on the cheapest white bread bun and some mustard right about now.
sounds like a downright DUMB thing for HD to do
I used to enjoy a Home Depot dog from time to time. Actually had a choice between a dog and a Polish sausage.
Someone was probably offended by the smell.
I smell a ‘rat.
Herr Whitmer
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