# I pit the Home Depot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 29, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668 "2016-06-29T02:42:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/21 "2016-06-30T20:11:15Z")
Ahhh, makes me appreciate our little local hardware store. Where you can bring in half of a bent rusty screw and some old guy (Pops Wendell, probably) yells out from the back “Looks like a two inch MacAlpine Leftie from the '30s!”. And then the high school summer help kid descends the rickety nearly-vertical stairs to the sub-basement and brings you an identical pre-rusted 1932 MacAlpine Leftie. “That’ll be a quarter.” A 4 1/4 x 6 inch cove sanitary tile would be no trouble, except “But yer gonna have to take an unsanitary one!” – Pops Wendell (slaps knee) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/22 "2016-06-30T20:21:16Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > You can return them to the store. We have a program called **BORIS - Buy Online, Return In Store.** You’ll at least get your money back. > > Sorry you had a problem. We’re the second-largest retailer in the world, with over ten thousand associates; not all of them are top of the class. Well, I have a program called **NATASHA - Nope, Ain’t Tryin’ Again, Stupid HomeDepot Assholes.** ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/23 "2016-06-30T21:50:08Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > Sort of like people who use apostrophes when they are not appropriate. > > Try “drives grammar Nazis to heroin”, please. Ha ha, what a complete stupid ass you are, Wolfpup. There’s a life out there looking for someone why don’t you go out and get it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/24 "2016-06-30T22:09:10Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > Oh my God. You only lost $20. Just trim the oversize tile and make it work, and get over it. 😕 Dafuq? If what I wanted to buy was **one** ceramic tile, I would not be at all happy to lose “only” $20 on the deal. And if I wanted the tile in a particular type and size **that the supplier advertised for sale** , and they sent me a tile that was in **an entirely _different_ size category** that they **also** advertised for sale, _ **and then tried to tell me that they don’t actually distinguish between those two size categories so the size distinction stated in their advertising is essentially meaningless** _, I’d be rather pissed off about it whether it cost me $20 or 20 cents. If they can’t actually guarantee the difference between a 4" tile and a 4.25" tile, then they should not be advertising 4" tiles and 4.25" tiles as different sizes. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/25 "2016-06-30T22:46:17Z")
_Waaaaay_ too long, didn’t read. I like Home Depot. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/26 "2016-06-30T22:55:02Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I like Home Depot. I hate Home Depot and now I hate you. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/27 "2016-06-30T23:00:59Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > My understanding is that the term would only apply if at some point they had 63 pieces and this amount “shrank” in an unintended and unrecorded manner. > > In this case, I think they never had 63 pieces to begin with, and that number was an error in the computer system from the start. > > [Wikipedia on shrinkage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkage_(accounting)) Hence falling under unplanned adjustment. If an employee scans one carton as on piece at checkout, it falls under shrinkage as well, for example. If the pieces come in cartons of 64 pieces, it would leave you physically short 63 of them. That kind of thing is usually caught during a cycle count, then someone like me researches the variance and makes a systematic adjustment so that the physical matches the system. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/28 "2016-06-30T23:04:09Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Those are the reason codes that fall under shrinkage. Essentially, shrinkage is an unplanned difference between the systematic and physical quantities. That would account for the system giving a quantity of 63 pieces and them having zero physically. > > A good inventory management program catches this early on and adjustments are made to the systematic quantity to match the physical. Apparently, you caught them between cycle counts. We call it “shrink”, and **missred** is correct - it’s the difference between what the computer says is on hand and what is actually present, regardless of the cause. Our shorthand for it is “book and physical”. > [@missred](#): > > That’s what those of us in inventory management would write off as shrinkage. It happens. “I was in the POOL!” > [@digs](#): > > Well, I have a program called **NATASHA - Nope, Ain’t Tryin’ Again, Stupid HomeDepot Assholes.** Is that the one that struggles against the **M** ove **O** n **O** ut, **S** hit **E** ater system? NATASHA - that’s pretty good, though. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/29 "2016-06-30T23:10:36Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Is that the one that struggles against the **M** ove **O** n **O** ut, **S** hit **E** ater system? > > NATASHA - that’s pretty good, though. Keel M.O.O.S.E. and S.Q.U.I.R.R.E.L.! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/30 "2016-06-30T23:18:38Z")
> [@digs](#): > > A 4 1/4 x 6 inch cove sanitary tile would be no trouble, except “But yer gonna have to take an unsanitary one!” – Pops Wendell (slaps knee) I demand a tile that Pops hasn’t been using to scratch his ass. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/31 "2016-07-01T03:04:24Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I demand a tile that Pops hasn’t been using to scratch his ass. We assumed that, so we shipped you the 4" version. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/32 "2016-07-01T03:25:25Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I’m only here to pit people who use “the” with Home Depot and grammar Nazis who point that out. Does that include [The Home Depot?](http://bensbargains.com/thecheckout/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/home-depot.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/33 "2016-07-01T20:22:49Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I demand a tile that Pops hasn’t been using to scratch his ass. > [@digs](#): > > We assumed that, so we shipped you the 4" version. Pops must have a big ass. Sent from my desktop PC running Windows 10 with Mozilla Firefox. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668/34 "2016-07-01T20:55:21Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I demand a tile that Pops hasn’t been using to scratch his ass. Yeah, and what’s up with the brown grout on it? mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-home-depot/758668.md?page=1)