Lowes or Home Depot?

[over9five]

Which do you prefer?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Lowes

 

[over9five]

Lowes

I've always gone to Home Depot, but for our current project we decided to try Lowes.

 

[pickup]

I like Lowes , it has a better feel to it. If you're in home depot for more than a half an hour, you will see orange for the rest of the day .

 

[pickup]

However, my home depot has those self serve scanning machines. My Lowes doesn't . As a result, I can get out of the home depot before the half hour deadline.

 

[over9five]

I like Lowes , it has a better feel to it. If you're in home depot for more than a half an hour, you will see orange for the rest of the day .

Copy the orange! I think Lowes is blue, right?

 

[pickup]

I can also walk to my Home Depot which is nice.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I've always gone to Home Depot, but for our current project we decided to try Lowes.

We are too small for a Home Depot. My son-in-law works for Lowes and gets a pretty good employee discount.

 

[pickup]

Copy the orange! I think Lowes is blue, right?

Yeah, but not an offending blue, it blows right off of you as you exit the store.

 

[pickup]

I thought about it even more, Lowe's seems to have a lot more stuff, with one exception: power tools. Home Depot is king of the power tools in selection and price. Honestly, I don't remember seeing any power tools at Lowe's.

I bought an energy star efficient refrigerator at Lowe's , free delivery too. Great price. Home Depot has refrigerators, but the prices are astronomical.

 

[ajblakejr]

Both have an appeal for difference projects.

I really appreciate a good Ace Hardware.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

"Get in...get out...go home"

 

[moreluck]

Lowe's is under 2 miles from my house........and Home Depot is up the freeway 15 minutes by where I used to live.
So it's Lowe's now that's our favorite.

We use Denault's for harder to find stuff.....(it's a True Value) and they have a beautiful gift section.

 

[pickup]

It seems all of the contractors: plumbers, sheetrock guys, etc. can be found at the home depot. I don't see those guys at Lowes. Lowes seems to be better suited for "civilians".

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Home Depot is more suited for contractors.

Lowes is for the weekend warriors.

 

[rod]

We don't have a Lowes locally and I pretty much hate all big box stores but I did use Home Depot because they used to always give a 10% discount (even on already discounted things) if you had a VA picture ID or showed them a copy of your DD214. Now I was told they just do that on Memorial, 4th of July, Labor and Veterans Days. I have a whole list of things to buy.

 

[ajblakejr]

Excuse me.

Does any one go Menards?

And you can't beat a Mills Fleet Farm.

 

[moreluck]

We don't have a Lowes locally and I pretty much hate all big box stores but I did use Home Depot because they used to always give a 10% discount (even on already discounted things) if you had a VA picture ID or showed them a copy of your DD214. Now I was told they just do that on Memorial, 4th of July, Labor and Veterans Days. I have a whole list of things to buy.

Veterans & actives get 10% off at our Lowe's.

 

[moreluck]

Excuse me.

Does any one go Menards?

And you can't beat a Mills Fleet Farm.

Never heard of them.

 

[cachsux]

We don't have a Lowes locally and I pretty much hate all big box stores but I did use Home Depot because they used to always give a 10% discount (even on already discounted things) if you had a VA picture ID or showed them a copy of your DD214. Now I was told they just do that on Memorial, 4th of July, Labor and Veterans Days. I have a whole list of things to buy.

I pointed that out not to long ago and was told it's all the time again but you must show the proper I.D., discharge papers won't do anymore.

Excuse me.

Does any one go Menards?

And you can't beat a Mills Fleet Farm.

We have both Lowe's , Menard's, and a Blaine's Farm and Fleet. Shop at all of them at one time or another. friend&friend is great at the change of shopping seasons to get the previous seasons clothing on clearance.

Never heard of them.

It's a midwest thing. When you need some electrical fence for your cows give us a call.