Yeah, hope we get back to life soon … and I need to get internet shopping slowed down in my home … too easy to blow money on both wants and so called needs …
Yeah, even to get a stainless Kenmore side by side … more basic than we had in mind … it was 6 weeks.
I have had pretty good luck using customer reviews to judge sight unseen purchases. I have a bad taste in my mouth from Consumer Reports after a top rated robot vac they highly recommended gave me green light to buy, its on its last legs 3 years in.
Yes and they can draw unemployment while refusing to work. All they have to do is say they are afraid of Covid.
not as easy to avoid as you might think...
I used to get all appliances at Lowes because they stocked them at their stores. They used XPO logistics to do the delivery so if you ordered by 3pm, they would deliver the next day and call you around 8pm that night to tell you what their delivery window was. That all went out the door a few months ago, none of their stores had anything in stock and I guess XPO got slammed with deliveries or had shortages of delivery drivers and even if it was in stock, they couldn't guarantee delivery for a few days. Home Depot, best buy seem to use that warehouse model and if it was in stock they still kept to the 1-2 week delivery window which still worked. Pretty much everyone price matches so there's no store that's cheaper than others.
Retail stores that adept at adapting seem to thrive in new markets. Its the ones who stay the same die off a slow painful death.
My experience is that Lowes has the best in-store stock for various appliances. HD, Best Buy, Menards (a midwest-based chain same as Lowes, HD, etc) have minimal stock, if any, and everything is "ordered" and delivered to your house. I actually wonder they all get supplied from the same warehouse or a couple warehouses because I see neighbors getting appliances delivered in plain, white box trucks, not branded trucks from those stores.
Pretty much exact thing happened to us with a washer from HD. In 2006! I don't think this is C-19 thing with them. They have always been screwed up.
As someone else said, you should have gone to Lowes. I actually just had to buy a stove. Wasn't that bad, the most popular cheap models were out of stock, but I never get the cheapest one anyway. The one I normally buy was about $550, normally when I first started buying them 10+ years ago, they were around $400 so I guess that's inflation for you. Anyway, the store I picked had one in stock so I gambled and ordered it. Online they said they would deliver in 2 days which wasn't bad, before it was over a month plus. It ended up being delayed one day so not bad, 3 days for delivery. Pre-pandemic, it was order by 3pm get it the next day. They basically have the same price as Home Depot. Home Depot has always been 2-3 weeks. I pretty much get everything else at Home Depot, but for appliances, I always do Lowes. During the pandemic I had to do Best Buy and even Sears and was happy to pay the $76 delivery charge that Sears had, it got delivered in a week, everyone else was a month plus.
