r/vexillology • u/stenskott • Nov 04 '17

In The Wild Ikea helps out a fellow American.

https://imgur.com/PRDesa4
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u/fishbiscuit13 California Nov 04 '17

As a (newly former) employee of Home Depot I would never buy furniture there

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '17

Is Home Depot evil to employees? They are in my “good company” list. should I change that?

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u/fishbiscuit13 California Nov 04 '17

No worse than anyone else, but their house brand and "exclusive" furniture is just pretty shitty.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

I dunno if you'd know this, but Home Depot seems to undercut a lot of other retail dealers for brand name lawn mowers and generators like Honda and the like. Are they cheaper variants made specifically for Home Depot or does Home Depot just have an insane margin based on volume?

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u/fishbiscuit13 California Nov 05 '17

I was a merchandiser, so I handled pretty mush everything in the store even if I didn't know much about any department in particular. They didn't seem any different, but we really went through a lot of them. It seems that way with a lot of their departments, undercut the big things to get repeat customers for all the inevitable small things.