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Home Depot Military Discount Policy Change
(WTNH) — Home advance retail behemothic Home Depot is at the centermost of a growing altercation involving how one of their discounts for veterans is handed out.
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The retailer, who acquaint added than $21 actor in accumulation in 2013, boasts ten percent off for aggressive associates and their families.
When 10 year Air Force and Navy adept Dominick Thomas went to a bounded Home Depot recently, he was not accustomed the discount.
“I handed them my license, they said they no best acquire that,” said Dominick from his Derby office. “This authorization proves I’m a veteran. They said they couldn’t do it.”
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He had acclimated the abatement for years. It was simple: he handed over a Connecticut accompaniment ID and Home Depot gave him the discount.
Home Depot absitively to stop accepting all accompaniment ID’s because of the altered acceptance of adept status.
In Connecticut, the state’s DMV verifies adept cachet application federal paperwork. Home Depot asks veterans to either accommodate a VA agenda or a DD214, a federal certificate acknowledging adept status.
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“The abstraction that a adept has to backpack about a accomplished agglomeration of appropriate abstracts to prove that he’s a adept is absolutely unfair,” said Governor Dannel Malloy. “Quite bluntly retailers would be acute to angle over backwards to get veterans into their places and booty advantage of discounts that are offered.”
The botheration is not different to Connecticut. Groups beyond the country accept accurate the aforementioned annoyance with the retailers policy.
“To me, it was an insult to the accompaniment to say that you’re not competent abundant to appearance that these bodies are veterans,” said Thomas.
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Thomas stops abbreviate of adage he’ll never boutique at Home Depot again, but says it makes it an accessible best back he’s looking, aggravating to save money.
“I had a above acquirement to make… I alleged Home Depot… asked accept you afflicted the policy, accept you adapted it? The acknowledgment was no. I went to Lowes and purchased it.”
A Home Depot accumulated backer said they accept had issues with bodies abusing the adept discount, so they had to change the policy. They are, however, testing a change to this action that will change the way they accord with this. No official announcements accept been fabricated yet.
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