Lowe's closing 50 stores !

[Diggin It]

Can anybody explain why the 1 x 6, 8, 10, 12 clear boards and other dimensional trim boards (eg 1x3 Red Oak or Birch) are stocked separate from lumber and millwork/moldings?

 

[Turbys_1700]

Just to add again the the discussion...
I went the other day to Lowes to pick up some MDF for a project...
It was around 1PM or so...
Bet I was asked 3 or 4 times if I could be helped...
Those focus surveys and questionnaires must have been read by management...
Typically when I go in there I know what I want and where it's located...
Just let me get my stuff and leave...

 

[PILOON]

Just to add again the the discussion...
I went the other day to Lowes to pick up some MDF for a project...
It was around 1PM or so...
Bet I was asked 3 or 4 times if I could be helped...
Those focus surveys and questionnaires must have been read by management...
Typically when I go in there I know what I want and where it's located...
Just let me get my stuff and leave...

I experienced the opposite.
Cruising the aisles I still could not locate my object and came upon 4 clerks chatting, I excused myself to ask for assistance but was told they were in conference.
Yep, I overheard them as I approached, they were comparing last nights dates! (serious conference)

But Sears took the winning place.
Not a clerk in any aisle and huge line ups at the one working cash only to find the cashier chatting with a clerk that should have been on the floor.
The only clerk that would be found was in appliances as they are on commission.

Electronics was a better deal as that floor space was leased to a major electronics outlet. Those guys cared.

Couple years back a McDonalds wanted to unionize as the poor clerk could not make ends meet.
That hamburger flipper wanted higher wages because he had trouble supporting his 3 kids and wife all while paying his mortgage.
WTF, change jobs, go back to school but don't expect me to pay U what U want.

 

[300UGUY]

This is just something a employee told me - The local Lowe痴 has cut back their staff, getting rid of a lot of employees. The store isn稚 closing, it痴 just the corporate way of cutting cost. This isn稚 seasonal, this is management and other permanent folks. I don稚 think I壇 like to own their stock right now.

 

[Oaktree]

Just to add again the the discussion...
I went the other day to Lowes to pick up some MDF for a project...
It was around 1PM or so...
Bet I was asked 3 or 4 times if I could be helped...

I experienced the opposite.
Cruising the aisles I still could not locate my object and came upon 4 clerks chatting, I excused myself to ask for assistance but was told they were in conference.

Never fails. When you need help there's no one around but if you're just browsing or know what you're after clerks are everywhere!

 

[Oldoak]

Never fails. When you need help there's no one around but if you're just browsing or know what you're after clerks are everywhere!

Isn't that the way it always works! And not just at Lowes.

 

[2manyrocks]

I went into Lowes today looking for a set of socket wrenches. There was a $79 set of Craftsmen wrenches and some $35 Kobalt wrench sets. I'd already been to Harbor Freight and looked at theirs which were $20-$25.

One thing that stood out to me was Lowes had a display rack full of a wide variety of different hammers. There has to be a boat load of cost associated with stocking 40-50 different kinds of hammers not to mention all of the other stuff they are carrying in inventory just in their tool department. That doesn't seem very efficient inventory management to me.

 

[bcp]

About 15 years ago a Sears store near here had over 60 electric drills on display. Store closed a month or two ago.

Bruce

 

[tjkubota93]

The worst part about HD and lowes is all the losers that work there. I have a better knowledge of trades and the inventory of the store than most of them. Whether they are 60 or 20. They used to hire retired or slowing down tradesmen with knowledge. Now it's just a bunch of idiots taking up space.

 

[aczlan]

The worst part about HD and lowes is all the losers that work there. I have a better knowledge of trades and the inventory of the store than most of them. Whether they are 60 or 20. They used to hire retired or slowing down tradesmen with knowledge. Now it's just a bunch of idiots taking up space.

That's because in today's economy, even "retired or slowing down tradesmen with knowledge" can make a lot more working side jobs than working for Lowe's or Home Depot.


Aaron Z