Almost every time I go to a web site such as Home Depot, Best Buys, Harbor Freight, etc.. When I view an item and want to see if it is stock locally.. The site shows me stores over 100 miles away.. I have turned off Location settings, and and changed the pages information to my local area, but after all this, the next time I view the site. I am still 100 miles away.. Of course each time I am at a site, I can change my location temporarily but the next time I am a 100 miles away. Any ideas or is this a quirk of my Internet Provider whose location usually is the one location that shows up? Just asking?

Are you using a hotspot. Sometimes it won't show you as being local but local to the IP address the system assigned. Sometimes when I use ours in Florida it Will show me connected to T Mobile in Kansas and it screws with my computer time as it thinks I am in Central Time Zone instead of eastern. Had to shut that off.

Same here when in FL it shows me in MD or even CA

Can't comment of the others, but HD has probably the second worst website I've been on, particularly for those things you mentioned, along with others. Horrible. You would think a big company like that could afford to spiff it up.However,don't get me started on #1 (unless you hate Disney World as much as I do)

So I clicked in to HD just for the hell of it and it has me at my home location which is 1400 miles away but it also says delivering to my current address and I've never had anything from HD delivered here.

Based on the location of the internet provider. Just found that out recently when I changed providers to one whose home office is located about 25 miles away. Suddenly Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc started showing the default store to the ones closest to that provider home office.

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chris3403
Explorer
Mar 27, 2021
So I clicked in to HD just for the hell of it and it has me at my home location which is 1400 miles away but it also says delivering to my current address and I've never had anything from HD delivered here.
larry_cad
Explorer II
Mar 27, 2021
Can't comment of the others, but HD has probably the second worst website I've been on, particularly for those things you mentioned, along with others. Horrible. You would think a big company like that could afford to spiff it up.

However,don't get me started on #1 (unless you hate Disney World as much as I do)
agesilaus
Explorer III
Mar 27, 2021
Same here when in FL it shows me in MD or even CA
Ranger_Smith
Explorer
Mar 27, 2021
Are you using a hotspot. Sometimes it won't show you as being local but local to the IP address the system assigned. Sometimes when I use ours in Florida it Will show me connected to T Mobile in Kansas and it screws with my computer time as it thinks I am in Central Time Zone instead of eastern. Had to shut that off.

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