[sorry, I'm interrupting the Missouri trip blogs from Erik, but this is getting my goat!]
So, a friend in Hays wants to throw us a bridal shower. Great! BUT there's nowhere in Hays we're registered. SO I go to Home Depot's web site, thinking I'll create a registry similar to the ones for Lowe's or Target. WRONG. Can't do it. Gotta go to the store. THEN when I got to the store, I was given a piece of paper with SEVEN LINES on it for all of my registry items. Umm.....not enough.
I encountered something similar when we registered at Lowe's. I had to walk around the store with a sheet of paper. It is seriously annoying. BUT at Lowe's, at least I can go online and adjust my registry. BUT I never got a clear answer at the store of whether my registry will be at multiple stores ... again, NOT helpful.
At Home Depot, it was VERY clear — the registry was tied to the individual store. Again, NOT helpful.
Seriously, what the heck???? Target has an awesome registry program. You show up, sign up and they give you a scanner gun to go around the store with. THEN you can go online and change the registry, and the registry is available at ANY Target store in the country. VERY helpful.
So....point of all of this? Target is the only place I found with its act together. Oh, and if you are wanting to go to HD or Lowe's for a registry, I suggest you go to our wedding registry page and print OFF the list from the link there, THEN go to Lowe's or Home Depot and do your shopping (the brands might be different, but you'll get a general idea of what we're needing to fix up Erik's house based on the registry).
Bottom line? There are plusses and minuses of each place. The Home Depot team was VERY friendly. EVERY employee I encountered asked how I was doing and if I found everything ok. Lowe's didn't have that awesome customer service, but does have online registry options....
2 comments:
Hey... Target is great and has it together, but they are a HUGE HUGE HUGE pain when it comes to returns. They used to take things back without a receipt ONLY if it were on your gift registry... but that changed between us getting married and having Oliver (we registered there both times). Now, they will not take ANYTHING back without a receipt. So, unless you specifically request that your guests include a gift receipt with your gift... you'd better hope you don't get multiples! They're also not the best at immediately updating your registry. If someone buys something, and an hour later, another person goes in to buy you something... it may not be updated in their system (thus, causing you to receive multiples). That being said... I can speak from experience and tell you Walmart, Sears, JCPenney's, and Bed,Bath&Beyond are all "together" in the registry sense... and are much better with returns than Target. BedBath is my favorite - they're excellent at taking things back (even if you don't know where it was purchased!). Hope that helps you.............! :)
SO many good comments, Amanda! Erik and I are BOTH set up in the bed/bath beyond items, though, which is stinky-roo. Maybe they'll branch out and start offering tool sets and paint brushes???? ;-)
ps-I AM a little bit nervous about Target's return policy .... we might have to get a *little* creative with it! tee-hee-hee!
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