I recently went to the HomeDepot.ca website to buy a garbage shed. You know one of those boxes made out of plastic so the raccoons won’t get into my garbage. I typed “garbage” into the search box and here is what was returned:
I’m steamed. First off I wasn’t looking for anything to do with a garage and if you are going to correct me, why not do it the way that Google does (which in itself is infuriating): “Did you mean garage?”
I tried the same search at Canadian Tire and got the results I wanted.
Which can mean only one thing to me – even though the website I went to was homedepot.CA as in CANADA they are really using American English as the basis for their searches … which only infuriates me even more!
It gets worse though, when I called to complain the customer service rep told me the correct term was TRASH, not garbage!
Needless to say I won’t be shopping at Home Depot any time soon.
