I'm pretty sure Home Depot uses the 'vendor owned' method so everything has to be returned or tossed. Phalaenopsis are a good item to rescue. My first orchid was a clearance Phal from Aldi
But most Phals I see that are past bloom, are still over ten bucks so that's pricey to me.
(I just like to give some perspective to the trashed books question: I work at a library. There are way too many old books in circulation than anyone can possibly want. People donate to us lots of really crappy old paperbacks, browned, stained, damaged etc. We can't sell or use them. They go in the recycle bin. And even the most popular new authors (James Patterson) we have too many to use. We may buy 150 copies of those when new, and after six months or so everyone has read them and we then have 100 more than we need. Multiply that by every popular author. We do our best to sell them or give them to an organization that can pass them along. )
