Gripedaddy is calling out Home Depot Founder Kenneth Langone to fix what has consistently been one of the worst Home Depot locations in the United States. Gripedaddy calls on Home Depot to make up for the poor service by underwriting the 2012 New Rochelle Fireworks Display.
Langone lives in Sands Point, NY just across the Long Island Sound from New Rochelle. He would actually be able to see the New Rochelle fireworks from his home.
Gripedaddy was that you at Home Dopey yesterday?
Gripedaddy, was that you who told me about the big veggie containers being on sale for 3/$10? That they were cheaper than the smaller containers? And then I asked you where you got the spike plant from?
I hopped in my car and started driving home & that voice wouldn’t leave my head and then it hit me like a ton on bricks: I just had a Gripedaddy experience and didn’t even pay homage to the man.
Anyway I hope it was you and that you know people are listening!
BTW, my experience yesterday at the store was a good one, but I can never figure out why anyone would wait on those god awful lines outside in the heat. I took an inside line with no wait. I was done (checking out that is) in a couple of minutes.
Ken Langone
Gripe,
The person you need contact is the CEO, Frank Blake. The Exec VP for U.S. operations is Marvin Ellison, he would be even better. Ken Langone is not the Chairman of the Board at Home Depot. Frank Blake also serves as Chairman. Ken Langone is not even on the Board of Directors of HD at this time.
Loews would fix the problem
Without competition this will continue at Home Depot. If Loews came to the area and drew all the buyers Home Depot would become better. Without competition you get Russia in the 70’s nobody could give a rats a**.
This is not rocket science. The store is a dump its run by loosers.
Release the Gripe
Hey Gripedaddy..the act’s getting a little old now, don’tcha’ think?
Learn some new camera moves, or something, would ya? Sheesh.
And by the way, Gripe, you live in Sands Point?…. Really?
They got no sh*t out there you can gripe about?
What’s with the focus on this side of the Sound?
You look to me, like a guy who might be in serious need of an enema.
Maybe that would release the gripe, no?
Gripedaddy is from New Rochelle
Kennth Langone, the Chairman of Home Depot, is from Sands Point.
Keep it coming baby!
What’s your beef Mike? What have you added for our daily comic relief that is life in New Rochelle? Maybe you could use the enema?
I can’t get enough of Gripedaddy! Keep it coming baby!
Whining about cashiers at
Whining about cashiers at Home Depot is comic relief for New Rochelle?
That’s sad.
They stink he is right! Keep it coming
He is saying and showing the things we all see and say nothing. I think it’s great, Keep it coming. Maybe Home Dept, New Rochelle and the City Council will wake up.
The Home Depot store in New Rochelle is useless. I also leave my cart in disgust many times. I would truly like to see the actual tax numbers from Home Depot since we give them abatements. Sales may show one thing but aren’t most of the customers contractors that don’t pay sales tax? I have said it before we need to have all the stores that get abatements have secret shoppers to keep them in line. I go to the Bronx Home Depot when I don’t have a choice. I use True Value as much as possible to spend in New Rochelle. The Home Depot, CVS and Walgreens have put several mom and pop stores out of business to appoint we have to travel to other cities to shop and spend our money. We have no retail as promised for so long and now the mom and pops can’t hold on any longer. So much for the benefits to New Rochelle!
Good luck, that store is a
Good luck, that store is a lost cause, I wouldn’t go there if they were giving away free stuff, let alone sent my wife there. Try the one in elmsford it’s 100 times better..
There ARE alternatives to hardware “big-boxes”
I will not go to the big-box you are discussing unless 1) no one else has the item that I am seeking or 2) it is late in the evening and something is needed in an emergency (last night for a portable pump) or 3) an item elsewhere seems extraordinarily overpriced (I know, I know; I am caving in here and justifying the big-box’s raison d’etre).
For a pleasant alternative, I recommend Modern Paint and Hardware (Huguenot Street and Center Avenue, New Rochelle) where the selection is enormous, housekeeping and lighting suitable to the purpose, staff attentive and friendly and prices reasonable (turns out I found a better-priced pump of roughly equivalent construction (foreign-sourced, naturally) at Modern than at the big-box).
NOT a paid endorsement; simply the result of recent visits to the stores. I have had similarly good experiences at Cornell’s in Eastchester and Brewer’s in Mamaroneck.
Way overpriced…
same product at a True Value, much cheaper. I would have liked to patronize them, but they were too expensive.
Brewer’s is a little better, but not much.
However, the lack of intelligence at Home Depot in New Rochelle is glaring, while the HDs in Elmsford and Port Chester are much, much better. Sad, isn’t it, they are the ‘made in China’ of hardware stores and we are forced to patronize them. Sad.
Funny story – remember Librett’s, THE quality hardware store of NR a thousand years ago? Go to True Value, any True Value, and pick up a POS outside doormat which is GREEN! (I hate GREEN!) and disintegrates, oh joy. It’s made in INDIA and guess who distributes it? Right, the opportunistic Librett’s. How sad is THAT???????????