Essential item...you be the judge.

[fishfood]

All the garden centres are OPEN..have been since the lockdown began....soil: 5/$10 (25lbs bags) at the Indepentant Garden Centre.

..my wife made me load 24 bags into her SUV.

The ones around here had all the feed in the soil feeds 6 to 9 months I don't want any of that. I like to feed on my own schedule, anything that can be harvested within a few months would still have chems in it. Paid 8 bucks a bag only 2 bags but it was crap so I found some better stuff at zehers. Walmart stuff was off limits .


You can order anything online at certain places clothes shoes what ever .


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[Species8472]

Yup. I guess those that complain about 'snowflakes', went all 'snowflake ' themselves. Ironic isn't it. lol.

Did you actually get a forum timeout? Even though I rarely agree with your ideology and find some posts annoying i think it is definitely a stretch to say you are offensive or insulting. I would even say it tends to boring without you around to stir things up a little. Can't leave all the heavy lifting to Gilroy alone.

[gbk]

The ones around here had all the feed in the soil feeds 6 to 9 months I don't want any of that. I like to feed on my own schedule, anything that can be harvested within a few months would still have chems in it. Paid 8 bucks a bag only 2 bags but it was crap so I found some better stuff at zehers. Walmart stuff was off limits .


You can order anything online at certain places clothes shoes what ever .


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Hi fishfood-You are saying things about the soil i would like to not know .....could You please elaborate more.
I think You were talking about"manufacturing"bagged garden soil our such.......am i right?

[Bowjob]

lol im not 100% sure where you guys are shopping but, you can order anything and go pick it up at curbside... i work at home depot, the garden center is open to the public, but you cannot come into the store. everything is done online, we go to pick the orders and set them up infornt of the store once theyre staged to be picked up a email is sent out to the customer, when the customer arrives they park in a designated parking spot call the store and a runner will come out with your items and either help load your truck if needed or let you load it. same with amazon or anything else, ive ordered a bunch of stuff from amazon, theyre behind right now because a couple fo their fulfillment centers were closed down. but they are still shipping anything you order. im waiting for a scope and some pants. same with basspro, i commented earlier you just call them they get your order ready and you go and pick it up. if anything this is way more convent for me lol, i dont have to walk around the store looking for what i need, none the less being upsold or tempted to buy things you walk past. to each their own i guess.

[dean.f]

An example: my only toilet started leaking like crazy, I didn't have the parts to fix it on hand. Home hardware curbside is so backed up that it takes up to 10 business days to fulfill an order. Ordering online is backlogged and takes 2-3 days from most retailers. A simple problem is now magnified. Not the end of the world, but certainly not ideal especially when still working full time (during regular business hours of a lot of supply stores) I now have to drive to a different town, wait a few days without a toilet, take time off work, or hire someone.

[Bowjob]

An example: my only toilet started leaking like crazy, I didn't have the parts to fix it on hand. Home hardware curbside is so backed up that it takes up to 10 business days to fulfill an order. Ordering online is backlogged and takes 2-3 days from most retailers. A simple problem is now magnified. Not the end of the world, but certainly not ideal especially when still working full time (during regular business hours of a lot of supply stores) I now have to drive to a different town, wait a few days without a toilet, take time off work, or hire someone.

yes i hear that, one of the major reasons for that at home depot anyways, was the day i think last week when rogers went down for the better part of the day. no orders were coming through and we couldnt get any orders out cause our phones lines were down and so was the internet. which caused a huge back log of orders that were waiting to go out and waiting to come in which resulted in a surplus of orders printing all at once.

deff hear what your saying tho. we are in the process of renovating our washroom so its taking longer than we originally thought with the same issues your having, if you try to look for a smaller retailer that will do curbside you might have luck there.

[fishermccann]

I ordered something from C. Tire yesterday morning, got an email early afternoon saying it was ready for pickup. 10 minutes in the car waiting after I got there and it was loaded into my car for me. Easy peasy.

[MikePal]

An example: my only toilet started leaking like crazy, I didn't have the parts to fix it on hand. Home hardware curbside is so backed up that it takes up to 10 business days to fulfill an order.

Our local Home H/W store set up an area just inside their door. A clerk comes forward, you tell him what your looking for and he scurries off to find some samples and brings them to you. Pick what you need, there's a Interact pad on the table and out you go.

All within lockdown guidelines and works for the elderly in the community that don't do 'on-line'.

[impact]

Well, I prefer in store shopping as your only best served but by yourself.
Part time clerks have steered me wrong too many times. I enjoy hardware stores with bulk bins so that I can pick and chose what is required for my project. I like handling power tools and comparing between them for price and features. So many times another handyman has come forward in an aisle to provide their opinion which is always graciously received.

Most of all I miss the human interaction and if this is what the never ending lockdowns and Great Reset is all about they can take it and shove it where the sun don't shine.

[MikePal]

Most of all I miss the human interaction and if this is what the never ending lockdowns and Great Reset is all about they can take it and shove it where the sun don't shine.

Way back during the first quasi lockdown, when everyone was a little more wary...my friends wife, who works in the Hunting Store section in CT, told me the staff was getting really perturbed with the public that would come into the store and just wander around. They weren't looking for anything in particular "just shopping".

The staff was upset that they were putting 'their' health at risk coming to work to serve 'essential' shopping requirements and some people were there just because they were bored and it was something to do.