Going to the hardware store is fun! I could walk around looking at the stuff there for hours.
Home despot is a last resort for me if both the smaller stores with competent employees (I blame HD for this, not the employees themselves) don’t have it and waiting for an order to come in is a problem for any nunber of reasons.
I hate going to big box hardware stores. They are loud even when they are empty and the layouts are so weird. I can’t find anything unless I use the phone app to tell me where it is and even then it will take me 10m to find the ‘aisle/bay/window’ or whatever.
my small local hw store is way more logical in how they arrange stuff. especially if I am trying to find like a replacement screw/bolt/fastener, you just go to the appropriate aisle and in 30s or so you can find the right thing.
For decades, big stores optimized their floor plans to maximize our exposure to products we might potentially buy while we seek something specific. One 7/11-alike near me put bread section on the opposite end of the floor from exit, so to buy a pretty common food item you go all the way past most of their inventory, and other popular categories spread out too to ensure you cover 100% of the store with your footsteps before you fill the average consumer cart of products. This surely adds some %s to their revenue, but makes shopping exhausting if you don’t know where everything is.
Going to the hardware store is fun! I could walk around looking at the stuff there for hours.
Home despot is a last resort for me if both the smaller stores with competent employees (I blame HD for this, not the employees themselves) don’t have it and waiting for an order to come in is a problem for any nunber of reasons.
I hate going to big box hardware stores. They are loud even when they are empty and the layouts are so weird. I can’t find anything unless I use the phone app to tell me where it is and even then it will take me 10m to find the ‘aisle/bay/window’ or whatever.
my small local hw store is way more logical in how they arrange stuff. especially if I am trying to find like a replacement screw/bolt/fastener, you just go to the appropriate aisle and in 30s or so you can find the right thing.
For decades, big stores optimized their floor plans to maximize our exposure to products we might potentially buy while we seek something specific. One 7/11-alike near me put bread section on the opposite end of the floor from exit, so to buy a pretty common food item you go all the way past most of their inventory, and other popular categories spread out too to ensure you cover 100% of the store with your footsteps before you fill the average consumer cart of products. This surely adds some %s to their revenue, but makes shopping exhausting if you don’t know where everything is.
Habitat For Humanity is the real hardware store worth looking at.
Anywhere else is a last resort.