Home Depot
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A Citizen's View of Home Depot
Not in Our Hometown: The Orange Wars
All across America, the headlines in daily newspapers describe a battle between citizens' groups and a company that one magazine describes as "America's most admired retailer". If Home Depot is so admirable, why are so many community groups and homeowners fighting hammer and tong to keep them out? Here is another side of Home Depot that you won't find in their Annual Report. Thousands of local residents are engaged in the Orange Wars--an effort to save their home towns from Home Depot.
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ConsumerAffairs.com : Home Depot
It's a great place to buy a light bulb, all right. But it might be a good idea to browse through our growing file of complaints before buying any special-order merchandise or hiring Home Depot as your contractor.

You might also want to consider the comments of Darren and Carlotta, two experienced contractors with some advice for homeowners thinking about contracting with Home Depot for a remodeling project. And also pay heed to Mary, who defends the poor installer, who gets stuck with everyone else's mistakes.
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Home Depot Complaints: Contractors Respond
I'm a female General Contractor who ownes a small remodeling company. I've read some of the complaints of the customers and have this to add. Large companies such as Home Depot are slowly putting small businesses out of business by offering the customers to install their products.
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Home Depot Employee Forum
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Home Depot wasting no time
Hours after OK for 1st S.F. store, plans 'moving forward'
Home Depot will move ahead with plans to build its first San Francisco store on Bayshore Boulevard, albeit a smaller one than the firm had hoped, following a city vote approving the project nearly a decade after the company proposed it.

The Planning Commission voted 4-2 early Friday -- after an eight-hour meeting that began Thursday evening -- to allow the home improvement giant to open shop at the border of the Bernal Heights and Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods.
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No on "N"
The saga of Home Depot in Mountain View really shouldn't have come to this: a heated and acrimonious ballot measure campaign, slick PR and expensive mailings, annoying petitioners and phone-callers, promises and threats, neighbors up in arms, and lawns dotted with signs disparaging gorillas.
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Can Home Depot be trusted?
Forget the money. Forget the traffic. Forget the jobs. Forget the noise. What it really comes down to, in the end, is trust.

Can Mountain View voters trust Home Depot to live up to its campaign promises and be a good neighbor if voters decide the company can build a new store at the Emporium site on El Camino Real?
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How Home Depot keeps store accidents secret
Little information about customer deaths or injuries at Home Depot stores ever reaches the public. And that's no accident.

When Home Depot provides attorneys with information about the frequency and severity of accidents in its stores, it demands they sign confidentiality agreements. Then experts hired by attorneys to review the information have to sign the agreements and any resulting settlements are almost always sealed, thus forbidding discussion.
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Home Depot and Don Wenzel Oxford Michigan
On September 14, 2005, Don Wenzel of Oxford, Michigan received a quote for a new roof from Home Depot. The Home Depot quote was one of four, the other three quotes coming from traditional roofing companies. The three roofing companies produced bids of $5,160.00, $5,545.00 and $5,900.00. Home Depot's quote was for $7,465.00.

Mr. Wenzel selected Home Depot's higher bid to achieve peace of mind since he had "...heard a lot of horror stories of bad roof jobs." Even though the quote produced by Home Depot's Roofing Consultant Mr. Justin Parker was $2,305.00 higher than the lowest quote, Mr. Wenzel signed a contract with Home Depot on September 21, 2005. "Mr. Parker told me that a project manager is assigned to each project and that I would not have any problems because the project manager takes care of everything. Wow, it would be worth it," said Mr. Wenzel.
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