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Saturday, August 26, 2017
Home Depot Takes Massive Advantage Of Hurricane Harvey Victims In Texas
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It's called gouging, and in most places it's illegal. In the rest of places it should be.
ReplyDeleteI have ten 5 gallon water jugs. You know the ones that go on the coolers. I fill them up when a hurricane is approaching. I've never run out of water and certainly never paid for bottled water. What is wrong with people today? Been drinking water from the tap and hose all my life.
ReplyDelete12:14 It's also called supply and demand. Don't think someone not so charitable would not buy all of it up at the regular price and sell it back per bottle for a lot higher price or even worse hoard it.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to see this out of Home Depot. I choose them over others but may change my mind.
ReplyDeleteIt is called "Capitalism", and it is what the market will bear.
ReplyDeleteNo different than paying the insane price of a NFL ticket, it is just a stupid football game, not worth several hundred dollars to see, yet there are Morons buying them every year.
I'm with 12:14 here. I don't buy bottled water at all unless my jug I refill all the time gets a leak and I need a new jug! 2l soda bottles, OJ jugs, all get saved and ready to be filled before a storm of any kind. But, then, I'm one of those who has a "White Priviledge Water Faucet" at my kitchen sink!
ReplyDeleteHello Lowes, Good bye HD
ReplyDeleteShame on Home Depot...Capitalism is NOT what's happening here. This is a tragedy and to MAKE exorbitant money on peoples despair is immoral at best.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with most of the previous posts. Probably, the same mark-up was applied as normally done. The cost to expedite all goods was reflective in the price.
ReplyDeleteLowes is the number one store in helping their customers. Home Depot is just another store taking advantage when ever.....where ever they can.
ReplyDeletePlywood prices go up exponentially as well, at both stores, and I used to be a contractor in south FL.
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ReplyDeleteNot to be a grammar Nazi but.....if you choose to be critical of someone or something you should cross your "t"'s and dot your "i"'s
The lesson to be learned here is to be prepared. I have a gas and diesel generator with supplies of both fuels. Store enough water to last 7-10 days and have food for a week on hand. Depending on where you live, adjust supply amounts accordingly. We have hand pumps for shallow wells and plenty of wildlife (varmints and seafood) to sustain us for a few months. City dwellers are not so lucky and y'all in them fancy developments just outside Da'Bury better be ready for the hungry masses that will come looking for food.
ReplyDeleteHi – This is Matt from The Home Depot’s Store Support Center. We never raise prices during a disaster and immediately freeze prices when a state of emergency is declared, but this was a pricing mistake. The store quickly fixed the problem by discounting all water intended to be sold by the bottle, as these were.
ReplyDeleteThose are both single serve packages, that someone at the store used the single retail price, multiplied by how many in a case, and that was the posted case cost. They are not the same as the 1/2 24pks sold warm. They are designed to be sold cold...same idea as buying a 20oz soda at the register for the same price you can get a warm 2L.
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