Ok, I guess this calls for my favorite home depot story.
They put those "maytag skyboxes" on sale for basically half price by the time all was said and done. Its basically a personal vending machine, you can put cans and bottles in there, holds about 3 cases worth, push a button, get a beer or soda. We go through a LOT of drinks in the warmer months, which around here is February through late January
So they have this huge sale item, its on the front page of their flyer. I stop in to get one.
They look and look and look and look. Oh wait...heres some in the stores 'front lock up cage'. But they're all the way in the back, someone put about 10 refrigerators in the middle of the cage aisle so they all have to be removed before we can even walk back there, and of course someone put all of them with the side that says what color they are all facing the wall. Half an hour later, we discover they're all silver instead of the black I'm buying.
They look and look and look. Oh wait, here are some more on the top shelf of the back wall behind a bunch of other boxes of stuff. With the side that says whats in them facing the wall.
They close half the aisles so Ed has to keep waiting for his tools. 25 minutes later they discover that none of them is the skybox but rather the overpriced stand they try to sell you. But wait...over there on the next shelf! Theres one! And its black!
Then you have to take it to the pro register to check it out (too big to go through a regular checkout) which is on the opposite corner of the store...but wait...before you leave you have to take it to 'special services' to sign a document that says you've received it. Special services is on the opposite corner of the store. Cant they bring the paperwork here rather than lugging this 150lb refrigeration unit way over there...because my car is RIGHT OVER THERE as I thought I was being smart to park near the checkout exit. Nope. That box pretty much circumnavigated the store twice and it took an hour and a half total from leaving my car to loading the skybox. For a front-page sale item on fire sale. You'd have thought they'd pull those down and have them ready as word has it they sold out of them in the first day of the sale.
Then theres the time they had a huge sale on a really nice stainless steel grill but decided not to build any of them in advance until someone bought them. Then they didnt have enough people working during the week so they couldnt build them until the weekend. Then they were offering if you trade in an old gas bottle you get a new filled one, except the guy who can decide if your old cylinder is acceptable doesnt work on weekends.
Heck, maybe you better line up at your broker to sell your home depot stock right after you're done dumping your GE stock...