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| - Just when you think a visit to a Home Depot couldn't get any worse, I recently visited this one and it just made my blood boil!
It's the closest Home Depot to downtown Toronto, but still a good distance.
Getting there was a bit of a challenge, as it is not a stand alone big box store. It is a buried in a small inner city mall and there isn't big sign on the street to mark its presense -- I wasn't familiar with the area so it made things more complicated. I drove by the place a couple times to actually find it and to get to it you have to navigate through a couple driveways and parking lots to actually get to it. There isn't much parking there and the entrance bottlenecks through a narrow covered parking area which happens to be near the entrance/loading area, so be patient as the traffic could be awful.
This Home Depot is much, much smaller than your typical Home Depot store -- I'd say about a third of the size, and not organized like one either, so you will be spending a lot of time finding stuff on your shopping list, if you can find it at all. It feels more like an aging Canadian Tire store.
I had a lengthly list and even with a help of a employee there, I could only get half the stuff I need.
Like any Home Depot, you have a store of not so intelligent staff trying to help the hoardes of even less intelligent customers. The combination of being under staffed and the amount of following customers who have the habit of asking way too many stupid questions makes you wonder why no one has gone postal at a Home Depot yet. This is not a place to go to if you need a simple question asked.
My visit here was a waste of time and the next day I went to another Home Depot to finish off my shopping. Lucky I didn't need anything urgently or else I would be extremely frustrated and mad.
If you live downtown and need to get to a Home Depot, your best bet would be the one on St. Clair Ave. W. Over there you also have a Rona and Canadian Tire as a back up plan.
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