This brings to mind Home Depot's free "water tests" hanging at the entry to every store, emblazoned with the Home Depot logo. Free water test! Make sure what yo

This brings to mind Home Depot's free "water tests" hanging at the entry to every store, emblazoned with the Home Depot logo. Free water test! Make sure what your family drinks and bathes in and cooks with is safe! they say. The reality is that everyone gets an urgent call from a sales rep about some vague characteristics of your water that urgently need to be corrected by one of their $7,000 water softening systems that nobody actually needs. The salespeople are relentless, they call daily, and insist on finding a time when "both spouses" will be home to listen to their pitch. I haven't been subjected to that but I'm sure it doubles their chances of one person caving to their high pressure sales tactics. When I first came across this, I was stunned that a big name retailer with a lot to lose would do something so shady and unethical. I wonder if they even actually do test the water and would notice or tell you if it was actually loaded with lead or something else.