Home Depot Prices? Off Topic

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Just curious as to everyone's current experience with Home Depot. They came in over here and are now basically everywhere while most of the regular shops are gone. Went to buy some stuff for the home and realized that their prices are no longer so cheap anymore. In fact they seem to be almost exactly the same as my local shop with the added disadvantage that everything they sell is the cheapest (quality)model you can find anywhere. They don't even seem to carry name brand items anymore but instead have mostly in house brands or special OEM items made for them that have a lower quality.
One of the final nails in the coffin
was when I needed one more sheet of sheetrock for some repairs at my house. I only needed one more so I went to the local "expensive " shop. Well turns out that it only cost about 30 cents more for the sheet but guess what, All I did was drive thru their lumber garage after i bought it and it was loaded onto the roof of my car by the store. I actually had a pleasant experience shopping there. Unlike home depot where i had to have a forklift come lower more sheetrock to the floor and then i had to cut the straps myself to get my sheetroc. load it onto my cart and then carry it to my car myself and load on the roof myself with the aid of a fellow shopper. All for a grand savings on the 8 pieces of sheetrock of $2.40(8x.30).
Never again will I go to Home Depot and have to deal with the hassles, crowds, cheap quality and complete lack of service unless there is no other way. How is it by you guys. Are they still much cheaper than the other stores or have they raised the prices on you also? Just curious as I was reminded of this when i went to HD to get a torx screwdriver as it was on the way and realized that i couldn't even find a good one. All of the screwdrivers were some in house crap brand made in china or somewhere. The deluxe house brand was husky made somewhere but they had the fit, finish and balance of one of those old stanley variety packs they used to sell at KMart. Real junk for which they were asking a premium price. Got a set of torx/allen wrenches instead which have that junk feel to them and which i know are going to break on the first stuck screw they encounter. Is everybody trying to rip me off or does it just seem that way.?