Home Depot repeatedly fails to pick up scheduled return shipments
A customer experienced four consecutive missed return pickup appointments over multiple days for a 250-lb furniture item. Each call resulted in new promises that were not honored, with no escalation path available. This is an individual logistics failure narrative without generalizable market gap signal.
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