Home Depot smells like a men's shelter/halfway house (it took me a couple trips to realize, why do I hate this familiar smell and not want to come back to this place).

It has the most bottom of the barrel staff and a lumber yard that sells... something... that barely qualifies as lumber. It is the epitome of modern American capitalism. It exists solely because it exists. No one would ever see a current Home Depot when visiting someone and say 'oh my god, please replace our current store(s) with this!'. But department stores used to offer experiences where people said that.