I have project in my management class: I am preparing a company profile of The Home Depot. Part of it is the company's interesting fact. I've been searching the company's website but I can't find something that is very interesting.
To give you better understanding what I need, for example, "the owner of Home Depot is a brother or sister of the president", something like that.
I hope I can get some real answers. NO KIDDING PLEASE... this is serious.
2006-09-10 15:04:36 · 7 answers · asked by whitesilk 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
how about the fact that they have outsourced ALL their complaints departments to India taking away a HUGE volume of work in the USA and from bitter experience they truly have no idea of what you are saying / describing when you do call them.
If you have a bit of time before this project is due in try the contact us bit on their home page and ask if they have any more in depth details regarding their business for your project and that you would be more than happy to o down to one of their stores in person to chat with someone................[this will show you are not trying to get info above what you need from them]
2006-09-10 15:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by candy g 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Search results for 'Home Depot Gossip'.............
1) Home Depot stores have become such a well-known place for single women on the prowl for handy men that it's become a running joke on radio talk shows.
Shoppers agree that the new hot spot for finding love is the local megamart.
"A few years ago, when my friend was going through her divorce, I said to her: 'If you want to meet guys, I don't recommend a bar. But I do frequent Home Depot,'" Lawrence, N.Y., relationship expert Debbie Mandel said.
"And then before you knew it, people would come over and talk to you. You're looking at tiles, they're looking at tiles; you're looking at silicon, they're looking at silicon; you learn the best way to grout and put tile down, and when we went over to the garden center, there were a lot of men working."
2)Some guys just can't get off the pot — literally.
Bob Dougherty, 57, has sued a Home Depot (search) in Louisville, Colo., saying he got stuck to a toilet seat in the restroom there after a Halloween jokester rubbed glue on it, according to The (Boulder) Daily Camera.
In the suit, Dougherty claims employees ignored his yells for help for at least 15 minutes — thinking the whole thing was some kind of hoax.
"They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The Daily Camera. "They just let me rot."
Filed on Friday, the lawsuit says Dougherty had been recovering from six-way heart bypass surgery when he was shopping in the store the day before Halloween 2003.
He thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck to the can and took three nitroglycerin pills.
An employee eventually heard the super-glued shopper calling for help and let the head clerk know about the situation via radio.
2006-09-10 15:14:19 · answer #2 · answered by markus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know anything just "interesting" but I will tell you this. My mother-in-law bought carpet from them a couple of months ago. They told her it would be in within 3-5 days - she waited a month and was told they ordered it wrong and it would be in within 3-5 days...Now carpet is out of stock...I tried calling the store to talk to the manager (never was there) - I asked for the district managers number and was told that due to privacy that number could not be given out but I could call their 1-800 #...I did that, but NEVER did I once receive a call from the store manager or anyone higher up. I WILL NEVER shop Home Depot because they DO NOT care about their customers!!
2006-09-10 15:09:53 · answer #3 · answered by kewltazdude 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My son works for Home Depot, he told me that almost as soon as the current CEO of Home
Depot, Bob Nardelli, came aboard the Home Depot stock began to drop rapidly. This also happened when the same Nardelli was the CEO of GE, coincidence....probably not. Also, in the media Bob Nardelli is nicknamed "Pockets" Nardelli.
2006-09-10 15:19:02 · answer #4 · answered by Virginia V 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about this. I used to work summers at Home Depot and it wasn't until I had been there for nearly six weeks before I was told that when you pronounce the name of the store "Home Depot," the "T" is silent.
That's pretty cool I thought.
2006-09-10 15:07:08 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Curious 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This ClubShop.com site has an overview of Home Depot's history and you can shop at the ClubShop.com site & earn cash back rebates at thousands of stores such as Home Depot.
http://www.clubshop.com/mall/onlineshoppingmallstores/onlinehomedepotstore.html
2006-09-11 05:09:27 · answer #6 · answered by Will B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of their employees are forced to wear that hideous orange color, and they claim it is part of their culture.
2006-09-10 15:09:58 · answer #7 · answered by Dave 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋