Home Depot is hopeless
This is a Saturday morning at the Home Depot. I love seeing the empty parking lot. Keep up the boycott people. We don't need these minipulating, greedy, spiteful bastards here.Home Depot has bad karma written all over it. Avoid that black cloud.
posted by Tom Falco at 1:56 PM
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21 Comments:
Im a big fan of Home Depot. They have had everything I need when I need it and its really close. I enjoy this blog a lot and appreciate all of your hard work, but I really dont understand why you cant let this one go. They have the right to exist there, even if the way it went down didnt seem right and didnt agree with your views.
If your blog existed wen KMart was still operating in the same location, would you be gloating about the lack of shoppers?
No, I shopped at K-Mart, and Mervyn's and Zayer's and Ames. They didn't come in, try to throw their weight around and try to break all zoning rules.
To Blind Mind: It just happens that Home Depot is there illegally because the City did not follow its own rules. The City passed an ordinance requiring any big box over 20,000 sq ft to file a special exception allowing a big box to go in there up to a maximum of 70,000 sq. ft. The City never required that. Home Depot thinks they can do whatever they want and the City did not enforce its own laws. It is a C1 light commercial zoning district and Home Depot by its own admission says it is a C2 industrial warehouse.
Please look at the trees in the photo above. There would have been more trees but Home Depot had them cut down. Home Depot applied for a permit to demolish all those trees. In fact, Home Depot cut down many trees without permits and they pled guilty and paid a fine. In fact, eventually Home Depot applied for a permit to demolish over 100 trees. Then when Marc Sarnoff, Sue McConnell, Jim McMaster and other concerned citizens fought to keep the trees Home Depot paid an army of attorneys and lobbyists to continue fighting to demolish all the trees. Shame on them.
I have never set foot in that Home Depot.
I recently moved to Miami, so I didn't know of the history.
I'm sorry to say that I have been in that Home Depot, but after reading up on the issue (after seeing this post), I won't ever go there again.
Thanks for letting the newcomers know.
PNV
Wait till Hurricane season arrives back in our backyard team. All you wonderful boycott people are going to run not walk to HD because our friends at Shell well of course be CLOSED. And just like after Andrew HD opened its doors without Electric and helped everyone in need. All shoppers were allowed into the store with flashlights and the super HD team left there own wrecked homes to help the rest of us! Time to get a life and move on to why our UGLY post office parking lot (Who by the way cut every single tree down) Is at a total standstill. If you have so much time on your side go get a job or volunteer at one of the Hospitals they need people like you all. There are many of us that really love that Home Depot is here and we donot have a empty store and a parking lot filled with drug pushers!! Time to GROW UP
Believe me the residents of the Grove keep a vigilant watch on them so it doesn't turn into another SW 8th St. mess. Their trucks are only allowed to deliver between certain hours, they pay attention to no outdoor sales, no outdoor speakers, you will notice they didn't sell Christmas trees like SW 8th St. does. The police are called when they illegally park on Bird Road so that you can't see when you exit the parking lot. They made sure their carts all had locks on them.
Maxine, you sound like such a sweet ray of sunshine, "Wait till hurricane season arrives back." Do you always go through life with such a negative outlook.
Why not enjoy the winter and forget the mean season for a few months. And if you are like most people, you'll stock up now and not wait till the last minute. Then the whole running around with flashlights would be a moot point.
Maxine sounds like a Home Depot paid lobbyist.
I hate to disclose the obvious but Home Depot profits from disasters. Also stating the obvious, people in South Florida should prepare in advance for hurricanes.
Shell Lumber never ran out of plywood during any of our hurricane warnings and hurricanes.
Eat the Orange - Just don't shop there!
Remember when Home Depot said "Thaks to all the hurricanes our profits are up."
I shop at that Home Depot often and will continue to do so because I try and support all the businesses in the grove. Say what you want about Shell Lumber but they are overpriced, closed on Sundays, closed at 6pm on weekdays, and etc. etc.
To all of you who hope that Home Depot closes I say, be careful what you wish for. We could do worse than what we have there now.
I have compared prices at both HD and Shell's and Shell's prices are in line and they meet and beat competitor's prices. They have always supported the community in evrything we do whether it be the Boy Scouts, Mango Strut, Shakespeare in the Park, etc. They are our community home store. Are you forgetting HD wanted to wipe out the grocery store and all the trees and take over that entire site with a BIG ORANBE BOX. Would you have supported them then? Did they care if we didn't have a grocery store? Hell No.
LOVE HOME DEPOT,your community store SHELL LUMBER is closing every day at 5 pm not open on Sundays and only till 1 pm on Saturday,
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT, WHERE ARE THEY? NICARAGUA? I CANT STAND IT, AND THEY ARE OVERPRICED BY THE WAY!!!!!!!
Anon - I know the whole story of why HD is there. Its been beat to death, trust me. I enjoy having HD in the neighborhood as they have had supplies I needed, when I needed them. I also know they didnt get to cut down the trees which gives all the Grove tree-huggers a real woody. Believe it or not, Miami is still America and HD has a right to be there.
Right on Maxine, although your thoughts may not be popular, they are true....As a 29 year old woman with my own condo here in the Grove, I cannot understand the huge 'fight' against HD. Welcome to 2007 people! Big box stores are everywhere! I shop there on a regular basis, Shell has inconvenient store hours, no parking, etc.
I'm sure we have all shopped at Publix, Wal-Mart, Target, etc. So I don't understand the selectivity on which stores people chose to hate...is it merely because they are located in the Grove? So, it would be okay to shop at HD OUTSIDE of the Grove? As long as it's not junking up your 'backyard' right? So sad so many people are such hypocrites!
Jennifer, I have been against this particular Home Depot since day one, I think it would be hypocritcal of me to shop there. Not the reverse as you state.
We all pick our own battles. This is mine. If you cared about the Grove at all, you would not shop there. Obviously it's all about you and not the Grove community at large.
"if you cared about the Grove at all..." C'mon. Don't alienate those of us who do care about the grove but happen to be on the ohter side of this. The store is already there. I care about the fact that my brother has a job there. And so do some of his friends. And while I too was against it at first, instead of boycotting it, we need to make sure that 1) something like this doesn't happen again somewhere else in the grove and 2) if Home Depot closes, then what are we gonna have there? It's too late to go back in time. The damage was done. Stop harping on it and pick another worthy battle.
Sorry the Grove wasn't able to keep HD out. There's talk of them closing stores cuz of the housing slump. You may win after all. Don from Colorado
Maybe if they close we can finally get a Target.
Guys we are talking about the 2nd largest retailer in the country who thinks they can go wherever they want. They didn't care if we didn't have a grocery store, which stores they put out of business as long as they made money. They didn't care about the trees, the Grove residents, our traffic ...but.... they were forced to scale down hopefully to the point that they are operating in the red. Grovites do not consider them part of the Grove. They invaded our village. They should be in an industrial park near the Palmetto.
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