... Lowe's military 10% discount?

[Bob M]

When asked for my at the Gilford Lowe's I was told that it was now their policy to ask for identification. I didn't ask if this was just a Gilford store policy or a corporate wide policy.

[Descant]

Went to Lowe's today. Yesterday, bought a stove on the phone to get the sale price which was expiring. We had to go to the store in person to get the discount, and a supervisor had to be called to enter it, presumably because the transaction was already in process. They did not ask for ID since we were in the system. Fifteen minutes later at Home Depot (Lowe's was out of Vermiculite) the cashier at HD asked for a veteran's ID. The cashier remarked that my VA ID was a card she had never seen and it wasn't on the approved list. Before I could respond, she had rung up the sale with the discount included. The two stores were in Amherst and Merrimack, respectively. (Oddly, HD had no Vermiulite on the shelf either. I suggested that they had four bags when I looked on line an hour earlier. They looked it up--they had 10 bags on a pallet 20 feet in the air in a different part of the store. They got a crew and a forklift and got the pallet down. Very nice, helpful and it only took a few minutes. Oddly, the clerk in the Bedford Lowe's said they had Vermiculite, he had seen it, but then couldn't find it. Kudos to the HD inventory system.

[ApS]

I don't know what's in New Hampshire Post Offices; but, in preparing my address-change forms, Lowe's had inserted a coupon for 25%-off on furniture.

For that 25% discount, you don't even have to shine your shoes.

[Cobalt 25]

I was very disappointed with Home Depot concerning the recent purchase of a refrigerator. The advertised price was $1,899 so I was fully expecting ten percent to be taken off of that price for my military discount.

No, I was told. That price already included a 10% discount, they said, although it was never made clear WHY there was another 10% discount.

For every other purchase I had made previously the 10% was given with no issues. Was it just because it was a fairly big ticket item that the military discount "disappeared"?

I told the clerk that although I wasn't upset with him (because he was just doing hi job), I was unhappy with the Home Depot policy for taking away what I fully expected to get.

I suppose I should just be thankful for my previous discounts!

[Descant]

Originally Posted by Cobalt 25

I was very disappointed with Home Depot concerning the recent purchase of a refrigerator. The advertised price was $1,899 so I was fully expecting ten percent to be taken off of that price for my military discount.

No, I was told. That price already included a 10% discount, they said, although it was never made clear WHY there was another 10% discount.

For every other purchase I had made previously the 10% was given with no issues. Was it just because it was a fairly big ticket item that the military discount "disappeared"?

I told the clerk that although I wasn't upset with him (because he was just doing hi job), I was unhappy with the Home Depot policy for taking away what I fully expected to get.

I suppose I should just be thankful for my previous discounts!

I've run into that. HD offered me either the sale price or the Vet's discount (which was better), but not both. Many businesses advertise "May not be combined with other offers"