{"id":6264,"date":"2010-04-28T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2016-03-01T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T16:36:33","slug":"i-don%e2%80%99t-go-to-lowes-for-the-salami-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/i-don%e2%80%99t-go-to-lowes-for-the-salami-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don\u2019t Go To Lowe&#8217;s For The Salami (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s trip to Lowe&#8217;s saw me purchase a porch swing, ten sacks of manure, a watering can, a flower pot, and some seeds.  When the clerk asked if I wanted to pay $10 to have the swing assembled for me, I told her no.  It would fit better in my truck in the box, and I know how to use a socket wrench.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home, you betcha, I was charged $10 for the assembly.  I called, and I can go in and get that amount refunded easily, but really.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe&#8217;s Point of Sale systems feature a monitor facing the cashier, and that&#8217;s it.  The customer either has to stand behind the cashier when he or she is scanning the goods to see what&#8217;s getting added to the bill or check the receipt immediately, I guess, but damn.  Lowe&#8217;s is one more bank error in their favor from driving me to Ace Hardware forever.<\/p>\n<p>(First edition of this sad series <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/i-dont-go-to-lowes-for-the-salami\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s trip to Lowe&#8217;s saw me purchase a porch swing, ten sacks of manure, a watering can, a flower pot, and some seeds. When the clerk asked if I wanted to pay $10 to have the swing assembled for me, I told her no. It would fit better in my truck in the box, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-note-to-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15186,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions\/15186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}