Posted on 06/16/2002 11:29:08 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Edited on 05/11/2004 5:33:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Home Depot Inc., the nation's largest hardware and home-improvement chain, has told its 1,400 stores not to do business with the U.S. government or its representatives.
The Post-Dispatch checked with managers at 38 stores in 11 states. All but two said they had received instructions from Home Depot's corporate headquarters this month not to take government credit cards, purchase orders or even cash if the items are being used by the federal government.
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In contrast, every store of the Lowe's (which I now refer to as "Blowe's")chain is a disorganized, filthy, disorganized madhouse of a sewer that is staffed by people who largely are surly, ignorant, and absent. Blowe's skimps on the numbers and quality of store workers, typically has only two registers open despite very long lines and uniformed employees visibly standing around yakking among themselves. These sewers cannot get things together enough to even have shopping carts available near the entrance (or exit) doorways of their dusty, dirty, stores.
Blowe's will go the way of the gun-grabbing Hechinger stores, which were even worse than Blowe's when the former existed.
I already have made a firm with the managers of our local Blowe's stores to meet face-to-face when it is announced that yet another retail sewer system is headed for a well-deserved flushing as a result of "market forces at work".....
I recall the Department of Transportation threatening one state with just such a loss of funds. They were told that the first hightways to be shut down for deferred maintenance would be the interstates, and that the effort spent collecting the federal taxes at the gas pumps would be the second cutback.
The feds preferred to compromise, and wait for a more compliant administration. Instead they got the Reagan landslide.
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With your government issued credit card?
Why? Because of this? Please explain.
It's their shirts they are trying to save by doing this. And an INDIVIDUAL serviceman can shop at Home Depot FOR PERSON USE, just not official government use.
A company the size and scope of Home Depot doesn't make these kind of decisions lightly, capriciously, whimsically, or arbitrarily - - this was a cold, calculated, business decision, possibly a year or more in the making. My guess is that Home Depot believes that cutting ties to big scumbag government can offer legal protection from the politically correct (scumbag liberal) long arm of big scumbag government. What's your theory?
I'm not sure I have one. I think this is either an old policy when the IMPAC system first came out and was very complicated, or they just don't want to do the paperwork for the tax free status.
The only theory I have is MONEY. I think it's one of the few voices we have, so I'll exercise mine by not shopping there until they realize it's just not nice being treated like dirt.
Our servicemen and women, and I'm one of them, are putting their lives on the line so HD can continue to enjoy the american way of life, but those same who would die in uniform to protect that right are not good enough to enter their stores and shop for their government? Not common sense to me.
Like Hechinger's, who supported gun grabbers, maybe the only message will be the bottom line. Hechinger's didn't get it until it was way too late. I don't want to see HD go the same route, but they simply won't be getting any of my personal cash.
The government places special laws on business that supply the Federal Government. Home Depot would rather not accept those restrictions. They would rather be free of those government restrictions than do business with them. Good for them. If more businesses stood up against the government the government would be forced to rethink it policies. That is a good thing.
I can definitely believe that! /no sarcasm
Since that day I've gone out of my way not to do business with them.
That's the spirit that founded this country.
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