- I have 10 more shopping secrets Home Depot
does not want you to know.
Welcome back to the channel of the YouTube Deal Guy,
Matt Granite.
I'm gonna bring you inside my local Home Depot
and expose some company's secrets.
And I wanna thank all of those store associates
and supervisors who provided unsolicited feedback
on my last video, basically saying that annoying guy
with the shirt and tie on YouTube actually did his homework
and didn't expect the information to benefit so many people.
Hopefully that will be the case today.
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Store shopping secret number one,
know the Home Depot store hierarchy.
And this is very important when we get
into some of the points about how to get lower prices
on things that you see advertised.
But I mentioned in my prior video
that you can get lower prices on damaged goods.
Floor associates generally have the power to lower our price
by up to 60 bucks.
But a manager at Home Depot may have additional leeway
when it comes to a more substantial price adjustments.
So if you're looking around inside a Home Depot store
you're in the lumber area where they sometimes
spray paint in purple, severely damaged pieces of lumber
where they may offer a price of 70% off,
you might actually be able to do a whole lot better
if you buy the whole pallet.
Seek out a manager if necessary,
it's not as though that person working the floor
doesn't wanna help you be on a certain point
it's just that they can't.
And that brings me to Home Depot shopping secret number two
which is that you can haggle on older stock.
I just mentioned what you could do for damaged stock
but if you do see something on the floor
or something very lonely on a shelf
that's clearly a 2020 model and we're mid 2021,
when you watch this video and you wanna buy it,
managers can and will override prices.
And the Home Depot customer service department
is often willing to work with you
depending on your approach.
And I know I don't need to tell you this
but if you are polite and not pushy, it is amazing
the lengths to which Home Depot employees will go to
assist you with making a purchase.
I've also found Home Depot staff very receptive
to just casually asking them a question of
what type of inventory are you guys trying to clear out
or get rid of?
Both the stock that they tell you about
and the prices that they offer will astound you
in some cases.
Before I tackle the best way to read a Home Depot price tag
in 2021 and penny shopping.
Shopping secret number three,
you can get your price adjusted after you buy online.
A lot of us are accustomed
to going to the customer service desk with a receipt
but if you do complete a purchase online
there is no need to deal with going into a store
to get a retroactive price adjustment.
Of course, as part of Home Depot's promise
if you make a purchase and the price drops
within a 30 day period after you buy,
you can seek out a retroactive price adjustment,
and if you made your purchase online
all you need to do is get a chat
or customer service contact going and you're good to go.
Home Depot shopping secret number four,
know the power of a hole, not necessarily a hole
in your pocket but a hole in a bag of gravel
or concrete and the savings that you can yield.
Now, I know I've mentioned damaged goods
but it's a completely different ball game,
if there happens to be a hole in a crushed bag of stone
or gravel and just as subscriber commented
on the last video, Robert Bond mentioned that he got 50% off
damaged bags of crushed stone and gravel.
And if there are these small tears at 25 cents
it's incredible.
Comments from other people that scored it
busted bags of concrete for 25 cents each.
Pamela mentioned that she got two bales of straw for $3.
I mean, the discounts are incredible
and you can stack your military
or veteran discount on top of that.
So reminder, if you are going to use that discount
to your advantage, definitely use it on the damaged goods.
You have to ask for it a lot of the time,
the person ringing you up
when your discount is so substantial
on something else might forget.
And now for Home Depot shopping secret number five
I am going to address penny shopping,
but first it's all about knowing
how to read the Home Depot price tag.
And I have explained how to do this
at other major retailers on this YouTube channel.
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Now for the Home Depot price tags.
If you're wondering whether an item
on your shopping list will go on sale
just look at the price tag.
There's a very specific way to read this.
At the Home Depot, when a price ends in .06 or 0.06,
it signifies that there will be six weeks
until the next time that product is marked down.
Many of you asked on my last video,
well, how do you know when the clock starts?
There is a date on the price tag from when it's marked down.
So take a very close look at both sides of the price tag.
If a price tag ends in 03,
the product to which it is attached
will be closed out after three weeks
meaning this is the best deal you're going to get.
A lot of people ask, when are items marked down?
At most Home Depots I find that
it's done on a Monday morning
although that will vary by location.
So more importantly, if you saw something advertised
for a dollar and 3 cents, as an example,
it means in three weeks, the item will go to its final phase
which is one at penny in the Home Depot inventory system.
Now, if you've made it this far into the video
and I appreciate you guys watching to this point
you might be thinking,
well, why would an item go to a penny?
What does this mean?
Why would Home Depot do that?
This penny price is merely a notification
to the store associates at Home Depot
that they need to get that item off the store shelves
is either being discontinued, it needs to be dumped
or donated, or moved to a completely different inventory
at some bargain clearing basement
that has nothing to do with Home Depot.
And a lot of the times these items just end up in dumpsters.
So if you are someone and you are frequenting
your Home Depot and you do see the price of 03,
and you know that there's three weeks
until you can make your move.
And it generally happens on a Monday.
The reason I'm telling you this is there is a chance
you can get quite a few items at a penny.
A lot of the time, the store associates
don't get to every single item in the store to clear it.
And if you do see it in the dates add up, so why not benefit
or resell it on eBay at a much higher price?
The one disadvantage to this whole method
other than that is time consuming.
Shopping secret number six.
If you buy an item for a penny at a Home Depot
and if you do need to return it for any reason
you will get back precisely what you paid
which is one penny, not the value of the item.
Maybe that's a no brainer, but I've actually seen people try
and return items for their face value at Home Depot
specifically around the holiday times.
Now the big thing for Home Depot is timing.
A lot of the shopping secrets I just divulged tie
into a specific day, or a markdown schedule.
And for shopping secret number seven,
know the power of Sundays.
if you for any reason are free on Sunday morning
this is a phenomenal time to go to Home Depot.
Yes, it is busier.
And if you don't have many friends like I do,
it's a great time to meet people
who wouldn't otherwise be afraid of you.
But a Home Depot will usually put damaged bags and pallets
outside the garden department at 50% off on Sunday mornings.
This is a regular occurrence.
And yes, in my prior video I've also mentioned
the incredible return policy where you have up to a year
to return specific plants that you buy from Home Depot
if they don't do well.
But that's not the shopping secret
I'm mentioning right now.
It is of course that Sunday morning
outside the garden center is sometimes a goldmine.
Home Depot shopping secret number eight.
If you're trying to purchase a piece of hardware
at a Home Depot that is not available
or out of stock, there is a chance the store will give you
the next best thing available at the same price.
Now this isn't gonna work for automatic door locks
or echo products that you might find.
If an echo show five is unavailable
it's not like they'll give you an eight
but for things like a faucet, this person mentioned
that they went to buy an economy faucet.
The store was out, the store associate said the policy
was to give them the next available one at a lower price.
And he saved 40 bucks and got a much better faucet.
That is typical of what I've experienced
at Home Depot as well.
Of course, that varies by store and that is subject
to someone's approval, but it is amazing
just how rewarded you can feel as a shopper at Home Depot.
And again, they're not sponsoring this
but I did find that in many shopping trips in particular
around the holidays.
Shopping secret number nine.
If you like shopping at Home Depot
there's absolutely no point ever setting foot in a Lowe's
to find a lower price.
And I actually did a video of Home Depot versus Lowe's.
And I compared all the policies in the stores
as a prior video on this channel.
But I wanna really enforce the price matching policy
where Home Depot will match any price
at Lowe's and beat it by up to 10%
as long as it as an identical item
physically available at a Lowe's store, they will match it.
So do your research print out whatever it is you need
and you do not need to shop
at Lowe's store for a lower price
if Home Depot will always beat it.
For shopping secret number 10,
I wanna address some inconsistencies at Home Depot
that's infuriating quite a few shoppers.
And then I'm gonna handle couponing at Home Depot
as part of the bonus that I've attached to this video.
If you have been told that Home Depot will price match
you can read their price match policy all you want,
it's not clear how they handle Best Buy and Amazon.
And a lot of it is subject to manager's approval.
I wanna draw attention to Jeannie's comment.
She mentioned that she works at Home Depot
and her Buffalo New York area store will not price match
against Amazon for anything on Home Depot.
But then right under that store employee comment
a shopper mentioned that in Buffalo, they do price match
And, well, they had a bit of fuss
when they tried to price match against and North Buffalo
they did have success.
Now to clear up this confusion and based on the people
that I have spoken to.
And, of course, this is subject to manager's approval
and varies by location.
If something is in stock on amazon.com
and it is in fact shipped and sold and fulfilled by Amazon
not a third-party reseller, not a lightning deal,
not some crazy special, but regular pricing on Amazon,
I have had success with Home Depot price matching Amazon
not beating it by an additional 10%
but at least matching it.
So you can pick it up physically at your store
and not order it and not wait for it
if you're not someone that frequently shops on Amazon.
And now for the bonus shopping secrets at Home Depot
that involved more incentives and couponing.
If you're not yet aware, well, there are digital workshops
that you can experience from homedepot.com.
You can find in-store workshops at Home Depot,
some great things for kids and workshops.
If you complete any of these workshops
at most participating locations, you'll often be rewarded
with coupons of up to 15% just for doing the free workshop.
So that's important to note I should also mention
as part of this bonus that Home Depot
also accepts manufacturer's coupon.
So, if you're going to an IOLTA, for example
buy your cleaning supplies
while a dollar tree might have some smaller sizes
of cleaning supplies where you could use
a manufacturer's coupon.
Home Depot sells the giant sizes
and you'll not only get savings on just how big
that bulk purchases but also be able to apply
the manufacturer's coupon.
And for my final bonus shopping secret
if you guys are not aware
Lowe's offers a coupon book that includes a 10% coupon
for anyone moving.
Well Home Depot doesn't offer such a thing.
Here's a quick trick.
If you take the 10% moving coupon
that you'd be given by Lowe's, which looks a little bit
like what I have on my screen,
and you bring that into a Home Depot
they will match that coupon.
You can load up, stock up, and you can essentially
transform a great moving incentive coupon
from Lowe's into cash at Home Depot.
So, however, you use that I just thought
that was a good thing to mention.
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