Home Depot blocks user's AI shopping bot; he threatens to move all business to Lowe's
building_brocks · x · 2026-11-14
Developer buildingbrocks used his AI bot (BrocksBot) to add materials to his Home Depot Pro cart and order them for pickup, calling it a huge time saver. Home Depot shut down the bot's browser session today — a screenshot shows it blocked from adding faucet parts or checking Baton Rouge store stock, with error code RP4993.
He says he'll move all his business to Lowe's if they let his bot assistant shop for him — a vivid example of the collision between retailers' anti-automation policies and agent-driven shopping.
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