Would you rather have a free shopping day at Home Depot or Saks

[NJmaverick]

why?

[HopeHoops]

1. Not Home Depot - they advertise on Rush's show.

I don't think there's anything I would want at Saks

[NJmaverick]

2. Lowes?

[HopeHoops]

7. Lowe's is good.

They have a better garden center anyway. And better hardwood, especially the cedar.

[jmowreader]

35. Cedar isn't hardwood

Neither store has a good hardwood selection. For that go to http://www.walllumber.com. You need a planer and the ability to deal with at least 100 board feet of lumber to shop there, but they've got good wood.

[lildreamer316]

3. I'll go with Home Depot/Lowes's.

I've been asking for a gift cerificate as Xmas gift from my cousins for years now. They never take me seriously. Is that because I'm a girl?? I don't get it.

[NJmaverick]

9. What do you buy there?

[lildreamer316]

13. anything!

Seriously, I want tools. I also need stuff constantly for my ageing house. I would really find one useful.

[Tobin S.]

4. Home Depot. I need new carpet.

[DeepBlueC]

5. Saks all the way

I can go to Home Depot any time.

[hippywife]

6. Lowes...not Home Depot.

Home Depot doesn't have the selection and their employees almost avoid your gaze as you look for assistance. Lowes' employees are very proactively helpful.

Actually, if given a real choice I would prefer a small town hardware store with all the fun goodies they always have or our local farm and garden supply.


:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

10. a free day at Lowe's to buy anything? New Kitchen, here I come!

and yeah, we prefer Lowes on general principles but our local Home Depot has apparently been pumping up the employees on serving the customer because they are very aggressively friendly and helpful..at the one closest to my house anyway.

oh but an old fashioned hardware store is the most fun ever!

[NJmaverick]

12. I miss the smaller chain and local hardware stores

they were very nice to shop in.

[NJmaverick]

11. I tend to favor Loews, but Home Depot is closer

you are right on about their employees not being all that helpful.

[hippywife]

16. It's Lowes.

Loews is the name of an old chain of movie theaters. :hi:

[NJmaverick]

17. So I have noticed. Well that was the big movie chain

when I used to go to the movies.

[hippywife]

20. It was when I was young, too.

I remember it well. :hi:

[merh]

33. Loews is a major league holding corporation (GOPers supported Bush et al)

They are the parent corp of the corporations that have hotels, theaters, an insurance corporation, oil/pipeline/exploration corporations, tobacco companies and ties to the Carlisle Group.

http://www.loews.com/loews.nsf/subsidiaryjob.htm

http://ir.loews.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=102789&p=irol-separation

[Maine-ah]

8. HD/Lowe's - I don't care. My house is falling apart.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. Home Depot

dude! I could just about build my house :bounce:

[begin_within]

15. And have stuff fall on me from high up and kill me at Home Depot?

No thanks. Plus Home Depot is now a "red" company so forget them. I'll go to Saks with my Mom and let her buy stuff.

[quakerboy]

31. Although

free. I would rather take more value away from the "red" company. With dilligence and hard work, maybe you could clear them out enough to put the location under?

[Brother Buzz]

18. Saks Fifth Avenue for sure

They have $3000 purses. I never owned a purse, but the $3000 one must be a doozy. I want one to carry my tools in. Home Depot tool boxes a so passé.

[TommyO]

19. If the choice is between the two of them, Home Depot all the way

New kitchen, new carpets, new paint, new Trex or other "wood" for the deck, maybe even some new windows. I could do some serious damage in far less than 24 hours at any home improvement store.

[Callalily]

21. Free shopping day?

Definitely Home Depot (or an equivalent). I seriously need a new refrigerator and stove.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Lowes rather than Home Despot. Saks doesn't have much

that a frumpy old lady would need or want. But I could sure use a whole lot of home improvement stuff.

[txwhitedove]

23. HD contributes to Repubs, so it's Lowe's for me...

Bought a small foreclosure with much work to be done, new flooring, paint, yard work. A free day at Lowe's would be a dream.

[pitohui]

24. home depot but i actually received the free shopping at saks

i rec'd two $1000 gift cards for saks and it was actually difficult to figure out how to spend the money - i ended up in the jewelry department mostly although about $500 was wasted on expensive face creams like freeze 24/7, lip venom, etc. that proved to work no better than the cheapie face cream from walmart

at home depot that kind of money would be easily spent on practical items in no time at all, since i own an older home

[graywarrior]

25. Lowe's

Never Home Depot.

[Sanity Claws]

26. Saks

I have a small rental apartment and thus have no use for the home improvement stuff at Home Depot.
As for Saks, I never shop there but if it's a free shopping trip, I'll go and hit the shoe department first.

[Auggie]

27. Home Depot...

This old house needs some work

[canoeist52]

28. When hubby and I were about to marry

my uncle called and asked I we were gift registered at any store. I told him no but we were renovating our apartment and we could use 28 electrical boxes. None 'a that girley stuff fer us, I guess ... :)

[dana_b]

29. Saks

I need clothes badly

[quakerboy]

30. Free shopping day?

Given that Saks, as looked up online, sells 3k rings, 6k necklaces, 5k earings, etc, I think I would have to go there and clear out the jewelry section first, then find other smallish items of potential value. I have no personal use for that stuff, but I can afford a safe to hold it until it can be converted to cash, whereas I have nowhere to store the items from a HD at this time. I cant think of anything offhand that HD sells that is worth 6k and can fit in my closed hand.

Of course, the cash conversion would probably be spent in large part at a Lowes or somewhere of that nature eventaully, but the things I want there are harder to carry and store, so I suspect my best value would be at the Saks.

[redwitch]

36. I am with you on this.

Can't believe how many people haven't said Saks. There's GOOD JEWELRY THERE FER GAWD'S SAKE! Come on people, it's all about the bling you can sell and then buy useful household stuff and STILL HAVE LEFTOVER CASH. Sheesh. ANd maybe a grand tour of Europe.

[Flaxbee]

42. If I could get enough in the way of jewelry, purses, etc. to resell

to buy my own home, I'd go to Saks.

They do have lovely jewelry. You'd need the one in NYC - it's the biggest. Or, find out which one has the best jewelry selection and go there - maybe Beverly Hills?

[quakerboy]

44. Yup

You give me all day, and unlimited free, I'm gonna clear out the Jewelry dept, any expensive purses, probably most of the cosmetics/fragrances, and then start on anything else portable and expensive.

Which is probably why no one will ever offer me all day unlimited free run of a store.

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. Home Depot. There is value in fixing up one's home. Fancy crap from Saks will lose value

unless you grab the diamonds

[merh]

34. definitely lowes

I love working on projects, I'd get tools and lumber and stuff - they have great stuff.

[MrScorpio]

37. The one that has computers and electronics

You know!

[WolverineDG]

38. Home Depot or Lowes

especially if delivery & installation is included. :)

dg

[mitchum]

39. I"m mechanically inclined, but also a fop...

I'm going with Saks

[Tikki]

40. I could design and then make for you a cute casual trio...

..pants, shell and jacket out of a painter's drop from Home Depot but, I can't
make a toilet out of a feathered boa.


Tikki

[Kali]

41. well I agree with the logic of snagging a bunch of high priced bling and reselling

but honestly I would sure rather spend the time in a hardware type store.

[jellen]

43. free shopping day at Sax. Why?

Because they gave me a credit card.

[Obama2012]

45. Home Depot

My house needs work.