Lowes/Menards Delivery Tipping Question
 

Do you guys tip for delivery from retailers? We ordered two skids worth of landscaping blocks. Took about 20 minutes to unload and cost us almost $70 bucks up front. Would you tip them? I didn't but now I kind of feel guilty about not doing it.

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What did the driver do?

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:tpd:

If he helped, I'd tip him and give him a bottle of water. If he watched, he'll get nothing.

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Maybe I'm a grumpy old fart but I wouldn't. You are paying $70 for delivery.

I'd wager most of their deliveries end up at construction sites where the contractor that ordered the stuff never tips. :2

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I get deliveries from Lowes all of the time. I have never tipped. In fact I have never even thought about it.

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I took delivery of a refrigerator and washer/dryer I bought online with white glove
delivery. The refrigerator was a nightmare and I had to take off doors for them to get it in. They probably went above and beyond their alloyed time, but I ha no cash to give them either.

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I always offer a soda, sports drink or water. Most of the time the delivery people will say no, but when they are hauling stuff I figure its the least I can do. :tu

I have asked delivery persons to do move other things besides moving the object they delivered. For instance when I got a couch delivered I also asked them to move my television downstairs in front of the couch. Now it was a big screen and I was on crutches at the time (big suprise), but they obliged and I gave them $20 for about 10 minutes of extra work. I might be in the minority but I am a chronic over-tipper and I tip people for doing nothing more than their job, but maybe I feel the need to help someone for helping me. :2

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I've also tipped furniture guys who moved some other stuff for us. But when the guys from Menards dropped the lumber for my deck last summer I wasn't even home.

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All he did was pick 2 skids off the truck with a lift and place them in the driveway.

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I never thought about it and when I worked at Home Depot they didn't allow us to take a tip. So I don't feel bad about it one bit.

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You were right not to tip. If manual labor is involved, I like to give them a ten so they can have a coupla drinks on me.