I Don’t. It must be your area or something, because I have never ever had anything ring up less than the price marked on it. I have tried your “formula” and the stuff scans exactly for the reduced price, no matter how old it is. In fact, after a certain time period, the stuff just disappears. Our store never has the “big sales” after the holidays either. Everything just goes back on the shelf, or gets sent back to corporate. They never reduce their stuff. It’s got to be some kind of individual store manager’s decision thing.
I've been doing a lot of reading on this one cent deal. It is entirely up to the manager's discretion, as to what happens to items that are to be discounted. He may send the items to another store, or discount them, or throw them away, but it is up to the manager of each store, as to how they do it. Many just make the employees throw the stuff out, rather than give anyone a deal. Some discount a lot of stuff, to let people get the surprise .01 cent deals. Some people have gotten very expensive items for one cent and many employees have a friend go get them, because they can't buy them themselves. Very interesting stuff and it's not just Home Depot. It can happen in a lot of stores, but only if the manager wants it to happen.
Our HD doesn't have deals. I walked the whole store and only found a dozen discounted items and they were all newer dates. Nothing old. Apparently they get rid of them before they become one cent deals here. Nothing discounted in Tyler, that's for sure. I buy most everything from the net and with free shipping, because TX is so high priced.
I see a new BLF thread starting up soon - "Home Depot Dumpster Diving Deals" :) .
-Garry
Today I picked up 2 more penny light fixtures! From 2 different stores.
I needed some more ceiling white for our house I was working in and found this one.
here is a closeup of the sticker, the date of 3/27/14 tells me that it could have gone to a penny any minute and it did
Later in the day I was in West Hartford and needed an LED bulb for a hallway fixture in a rental property and found this one.
A closeup of the sticker shows that same date of 3/27/14
Here are the receipts
However, things don’t always go my way. Here is another that would have been a penny but it was gone. I last saw it in the store 2 days ago.
did the price scan and it scanned at $13.03.
Date on the sticker was also 3/27/14, so it too would probably have rung up for a penny. Either someone else got it or they pulled it off the shelf before I got there
I fully support the renaming of Dchomak to DcHomer upgrade campaign, you have truly achieved Home Depot Zen status
So Garry, I know you have a Ryobi drill, what did you end up getting and were the packs any good. I remember you buying a couple over the internet.
BTW, the best packs in the recycle bin for harvesting loose cells, for me, are the Makitas. They all have Sony 1500 mAh cells and usually there is only one bad cell. I think it has to do that there really isn’t much of a BMS on board.
Actually there is, but it is powered off the bottom cell in the string. That means that cell has more load on it than the others and if the pack is left sitting for a long time that cell can be discharged to the point of no return.
Or the “Make a Home Depot employee your buddy, so you know when they are getting rid of the dollar stoves, fridges and freezers” thread.
Actually, our zen expert can just start selling all the one cent stuff for two cents plus shipping!
Just my "two cents worth".
I left with 2 Li-ion Ryobi packs (identical to mine - the smaller capacity ones) and 2 Rigid packs which I suspect are NiCd packs (they don't say anywhere on them what they are, just "18 volt" and they are heavy). I have not tested them and I need torx security bits to get them opened up. The Ryobi's I'll just charge up and try in my drill.
-Garry
You can get a nice small set of security bits at HF. They are usually 3.99 when on sale. Don’t forget to bring a 20 or 30% off coupon! When I first open a pack I immediately measure and write the voltage on each cell.
Donald Trumps people recently contacted me. It seems he is writing a sequel to his famous book “The Art of the Deal” and they wanted to interview me. 
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If you’re feeling slightly violent, you can often use a very small nailset to knock out the center post on various security bits, thus turning them into non-security screws. Just give it a sharp shot, at as much angle as you can manage. (Sometimes easier said than done.)
Warning: if you aren’t lucky, you’ll just bend the post and no driver bit will remove the screw. (That said, it’s never happened to me.)
Thanks for the tip! Just checked my two Ryobi packs One reading 5.09v and charging now. The other reading 0.07v :( . Might have to tear that one down.
-Garry
You know you guys want one of these to mod. 
Depending on the screw you can just use clean/fresh torx bits, two steady hands, and some patience. I tore down two Rigid packs recently (nothing good in them) which had security-torx screws. The post in the middle wasn’t quite tall enough to prevent me from using regular torx bits as long as I kept everything very square.
I take apart so many pack’s I took the multi-bit folding thing I got from HF and cut the size I needed off and chuck that in my drill.
Back OT over the weekend I walked up and down every single isle at my HD and there wasnt a single sale price that ended with 3 or 6, pretty dissapointing :(. I also scanned every single clearance / sale tag and everything was priced same as the tag stated. I dont think they do the clearance thing here. A few weeks ago I found an open 6pk of 9v energizer’s and it was only priced 5% off and never sold, I got it out of the recycling pack.
Well one of the Ryobi packs charged up and I've been using it in my small trim saw (small circular saw). Battery indicator dropped kind of quick to 1 bar, but I don't use the trim saw often enough to know how long a battery should last in it.
The other battery, well it turn out not so good. Wouldn't charge up (charger indicated "defective"). Pack had some rust marks on the outside too. So here is what I found inside:
So I put the case back together and will drop it back off for the recycling bin.
-Garry
Hi dchomak - Thankyou for posting thise pictures of the flashlight’s.
Our home depot did not have a nice display of them like that in your Home Depot but our’s carried a few new nifty flashlight’s
I bought one of the new ones the look’s like the 1000 lumen triple Led light in your picture At our home Depot but this one was 1500 lumen and had three XM-L2 led’s in it inside fairly deep reflector’s and takes 4 D cell batteries (This one—> http://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant-1500-Lumen-LED-Flashlight-HD14Q420/205317037 ) I noticed one with ripped packageing and picked it up and an employee walked by and said ” I can get you a discount on that one” and I asked how much he said let’s take it to the register and find out when we went to the register he entered a code that rang up as a $20 gift card and asked me how is that price?,I bought it on the spot (regular price here $34.88).
I tested the light using 4 Tenergy Premium Ni-MH Rechargeables against my Trustfire J-19 and the beam’s are about I dentical with the home depot model having a warmer tint and a slightly larger hotspot and a hair brighter overall (My J-19 is not modded)….a very nice light even at full price I now use the light as a bedside light next to a smaller Nitefighter f21c for pistol carry just in case.
Did you notice I fany of those light’s had newer Led’s in them?
It seems that XML2, XPG2, and XPE2 emitters have found their way into most flashlights, I got a rayovac headlamp that sports an XPE2 and an defiant headlamp that sports a XPG2 emitter and a turbo mode that is in excess of 200 lumens on eneloop AAAs.
I am noticing this to.
I personaly like this shift from seeing these led’s in just Chinese light’s and expensive USA light’s into affordable USA light’s that more folk’s can afford and experience. Exciting stuff.
Still like my modded Chinese light’s of course.