Comments on: The Blacklist: Home Depot

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:59:06 +0000

You make some reasonable points. Yes, they did get refunds for the plants - I know that much. They didn’t say that the requirement came from the nursery - I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.

In any event, I did write to Home Depot about the issue, and received the expected form response. The act may be a drop in the ocean, but as the old lady said when she peed in the sea, “every little bit helps.”

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:46:36 +0000

They probably got paid for those plants. They probably have an agreement with the grower in which the grower doesn’t want the plants back, but gives them money to dispose of the plants. It sounds like it is Home Depot’s policy to honor this agreement. That’s their flaw, is in agreeing to purchase plants from a nursery that insists on this practice, not in the practice itself.

Bookstores rip the front cover off magazines and sometimes book and send just the covers back to the publisher. Their agreement is that They will dispose of the rest of the book - it saves on shipping costs. It’s an industry standard.

I don’t know anything about Home Depot as a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ company, and I’m not saying I agree with this tradition between companies and the folks they get their products from (I don’t), but it definitely isn’t Home Depot specific. It would make more sense to boycott products from that nursery, and if you actually care, to write them a letter explaining why you’re boycotting their products.

I’m all for not wasting things, but that’s another story.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:53:59 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. Hope to hear from you again.

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By: Tom Humes

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