Hardware stores... Is it just me?

rickjames · #1 01-04-2006, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by christyf5

Bwahahah, that sounds like my trips to home depot. Sadly we don't have a Rona so if they don't have it, I'm pretty much screwed. I love the chips at 2:30 comment. Nice

Just as a FYI we are getting a Rona in Duncan (the Home Hardware got bought out or something) and the home hardware in cobble hill has already changed hands and is now a Rona. So hopefully they will have some more plumbing goodies!!

Sometimes I feel like taking a picture of the PVC fitting section so that I know what each store carries instead of having to go there and not find what I'm looking for!

outtafocus · #2 01-04-2006, 10:40 PM

I am in no way speaking on behalf of Rona and I am not representing the company in any way.
Having worked in that Rona store (9630 macleod tr) for more than 7 years, there is still items which I have no idea where they are. When a store has almost a million sku's (item id #'s) in its computer system and just about the same amount of product, it becomes difficult to find things sometimes.

A big problem in Calgary is the shortage of people to do jobs. A company like Rona which pays on the lower end of the pay scale is forced to hire basically two kinds of people, old retired guys, who have nothing better to keep them busy and who dont know how to or care to use computers. And young high school kids who dont know much about the building industry. It is tough to learn where product is in the kitchen department when you work in lumber and vice versa.

As for light diffuser, its exactly where it should be. Just like BMWrider said, it is a ceiling product and thus sold with all other ceiling accesories.

When I go into Home Depot stores I am completely lost. HD organizes their stores quite differently than Rona. Im not saying one way is any better than the other just quite different.
Its interesting to see how each Rona store carries different product also. I perfer to shop at the sunridge Rona for my PVC stuff, I feel they carry more than the Macleod store. Totem (now a part of the Rona family) doesnt carry PVC stuff at all, from what I have found in the two stores I have visited.

AndyL · #3 01-05-2006, 12:37 AM

My usual shopping is rona behind sunridge, but the eggcrate really is in the ladder aisle. Or at least so it seems - when you're facing the display, behind you are ladders, to your right is ladders... (left is the front aisle). Could be the rest of the suspended ceiling stuff is farther down...
I figured it was just there because it was probably easier for product placement, the aisles bigger than the one down the lighting aisle.

I find it amusing to compare pricing between home despots and rona even on the silly pvc parts. 90s, 45s, ball valves are cheaper at HD, but there's not as many bits and pieces (for those make it work DIY projects), Sunridge Ronas great for having things like unions in stock (one of the few I've found in town that carries them).

All I can say is it's a good thing they're about a 5 minute drive apart - I've learned to shop both to save on bigger plumbing projects.

Andy

muck · #4 01-05-2006, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by AndyL

All I can say is it's a good thing they're about a 5 minute drive apart - I've learned to shop both to save on bigger plumbing projects.

Andy

I guess we are lucky up here in Edmonton, Andy. The closest Rona and Home Depot (and the second closest) to me are right beside each other. You can walk back and forth..

AndyL · #5 01-05-2006, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by muck

I guess we are lucky up here in Edmonton, Andy. The closest Rona and Home Depot (and the second closest) to me are right beside each other. You can walk back and forth..

This is the bad part about living in the 'inner city' I need to move to the burbs so I can have such luxury.

demon666 · #6 01-05-2006, 03:43 AM

ya dont need to move to the burbs andy ya jsut need to move to great ol' edmonton

shawn

Funky_Fish14 · #7 01-05-2006, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by muck

I guess we are lucky up here in Edmonton, Andy. The closest Rona and Home Depot (and the second closest) to me are right beside each other. You can walk back and forth..

Haha, Ryan, you must frequent the stores at Terra Losa? Those two are great! HD doesnt carry white PVC stuff though, but Rona does. Rona doesnt carry silicon(that is ok for tanks) but HD does. Its rather convinient!

muck · #8 01-05-2006, 09:39 PM

Yep.. I am at the Terra Losa stores quite a bit..

Oh and HD does carry the white PVC (underground sprinkler parts) but i find Rona has a better selection. IF I need a fair bit though I'll usually go to Wolseley.

Matt · #9 01-08-2006, 05:25 PM

So I was in Rona yesterday, and reflecting on these posts... The real problem is that they aren't keeping all this stuff in the Reef Section, where it belongs. In fact, I couldn't even find the reef section in the Calgary Trail store. Shameful.

Funky_Fish14 · #10 01-14-2006, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by muck

Yep.. I am at the Terra Losa stores quite a bit..

Oh and HD does carry the white PVC (underground sprinkler parts) but i find Rona has a better selection. IF I need a fair bit though I'll usually go to Wolseley.

Ohh? Last time I was in HD, I only saw a few sizes of white PVC pipe but thats it? Hmm. Well I havent gone there for it since then, lol.