for the garage from Lowe’s. Called yesterday; it will be delivered tomorrow. Decided I wanted to speak to a human. Took me a day and a half. I am persistent.
Sometimes we get lucky. Don’t give up. I am in Northern California.

and electricians. Then they don't show up

at the next table with "D&D" on their t-shirts. My wife asked them if they did home construction and they introduced themselves as Don and David.

GREAT find. These guys now do all the work for our condo association. They are reasonable, reliable, do quality work. And are really nice guys.

Seems so different. Seems like everyone is way too busy and not very dependable. Constantly push times and days they're coming.

Maytag out Whirlpool in.

We (Chicago northern suburb) have a giant distributor that stocks tons of stuff and will match any big box store.

ABT appliance. If they don’t have it, I probably don’t need it.

Big Box stores rely on heavy volume and low wage employees. Locals have an incentive to provide better service to attract a customer base and to maintain repeat customers

Manufacturers too. At least it's a more pleasant wait . Like to support local

November will be here in a minute!

from a local appliance store, with right side door hinges to fit our 100 year old house plumbing. This was during the covid shut down. It was supposed to take 3 months, after a few calls from store to the manufacturer, we finally got it delivered 7 months after ordering. It wasn't balanced correctly, they came out and fixed it immediately the same day. The closest other official vendor was 4 hours away. It was worth the wait to shop local.