DG Site Updates: Home Depot, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
deb,

That is pretty much what my Sunday AM stint in Garden is like--for 4 hours straight!

I can tell you--there is SO much misinformation and ignorance out there just from what I hear from customers...Sometimes, if I see someone pushing a cart full of bags of top soil (the yuk stuff), and they also have tomatoes and other plants in the cart, I will just stop them and say: "May I ask what you are going to use that soil for?" The reply will usually be--"My vegetable garden..." Then I explain to them that this kind of "top soil" is for filling holes in the lawn and then direct them to bags of Garden Soil and a couple bags of Humus with dried cow manure. Top soil goes back on the pile and they go home with the right stuff.....
I LOVE "setting them straight".....LOVE educating them!
I talk plain and never try to just sell them something....I talk about my own experiences and if we don't carry something--I try to direct them to another place--even Lowes--if they have something that we no longer carry....like "Snakeaway".....

Or--people will have a bag of Crab Grass preemergent in their carts AND a bag of grass seed.....They do not know that you cannot use both....

As I talk to them, you can see, ever so slowly, that "AHA" look in their faces.....and then the questions start coming....THAT is my reward.....:o)

Gita

Here I am at my table last Spring.....