[Zeke]

Home Depot, Hollywood or Lakewood, just a total ****hole. I've parked around the corner where the fenced in side of the nursery is, a long way from any entrance and had my truck damaged by something that fell against it and slid down the side leaving long scratches.

I feel like a total sleazeball there and I haven't been there more than 2wice in 2 years. I buy everything i need including paint online. I check the prices and I'm not overpaying for the convenience of not having to go into hell.

Incidentally, we have 2 HD's within 2 miles of each other and the older one is different in the sense that it really is for contractors. A store manager told me that they stock more SKU's of serious building stuff and less in he way of table lamps and shades, that sort of thing. They have a hiring station in the corner of the lot, too. But it's wall to wall trucks in the lot with high theft.

I hate it. I'll drive 8 miles to a Lowe's instead because it's always a ghost town except on weekends when all the DIY'ers are out in force. A few cute mommies to boot.

Yes, miss OSH, but miss the original OSH stores way more than the reinvented ones owed by Lowe's, who ruined it and ran it in to the ground. I used to drive 20 miles to go to one before they opened one 3 miles from me. About the time they started selling appliances was when the beginning of the end started. Then they closed all the mid size stores and built much larger ones with super high prices. Millions invested and millions lost.