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51 lowes stores closing

Yes while staring down at my 8.00 tube of plastic filler I thought about it. With all the little stores gone you will have only the two big box stores to gouge you.
 
Man is that right. We had a Lowes store come into town 12 or 15 years ago, and were shocked to see how much higher the old usual lumber yards prices were. I just had to go to the old store, tell them how much lower the prices were at Lowes, and get my discount.
 
X2 Menards is my go to store.
Menards is building a second store in Terre Haute at the south end of town about a mile from Lowes.
I think it will put the hurts to Lowes.
 
If those stores are anything like the stores in North Texas they have too many employees. You can't hardly get through the store for employees standing around yacking.
 
Lowes is sort of the new kid on the block for big box retail lumber yards up here. One opened up not too far away, I drop in now and then but not often. Bought a nice new range hood a couple of years back. Home Depot seems to have things tied up in this area. No matter where I shop, I'm always amazed how much stuff costs nowadays. I don't have too many home projects on the go for the past ten years or so so for the most part, I'm out of the loop on prices (including vehicles with an 07 Civic and an 02 Caravan.
 
On the big ticket items like materials for a house addition or building a barn, my home town mom n pop is very competitive. Small stuff they are higher. But I buy from the mom n pop any way. There are only 7 miles away. I want to be able to buy a $2.00 bolt from them rather than drive 30 miles for the same bolt for $1.50.
 
I go to Lowe?s for small things, Home Depot got small projects, Menards for the big jobs.
 
Many of the stores that are closing out in Ontario are because when Lowe?s bought out Rona stores a while back , some stores were just too close together. This caused duplication, and the two stores competed with each other for customers. No company needs two stores like these within two blocks of each other. So many closing just make sense
 
just because they made 70 billion does not mean they made a profit its called profit and loss
 
As far as the ones in New York State, they are down in NY City. Those cityiot people don't have a clue as to which end of a hammer they should pick up. Why did Lowes even open stores in that area. Likely all they sold was pots full of flowers that died and buyers brought them back for warranty.
Loren
 
That is better than the ghost town of Home good luck. Took my mother to buy a stove at Home good luck. Plenty of employees standing around the stoves. Until we got there. Then it looked like quail scattering. No one around. So we walked out and drove the forty miles to Lowes. Bought the stove. They loaded it for us. Tied it down made sure we had everything we needed.
 
We have 2 Rona stores here. They bought out the Home Hardware units. Service disappeared, quality of products is crap and the prices are high. Glad I retired as a Bldg. contractor. It is cheaper /better to have materials brought in from Vancouver. Oddly enough I had good service/prices from Lowes in New Westminster.
 
That depends- if I want help, there's no one to be found. If I don't want help, there's some "helper" trying to impress me. They usually know less than I do.
 
Yah ACG, I suppose you don't mind though when one of those city dwellers (who don't have a clue how to use a hammer) lays you or someone in your family out on the operating table and takes out a big chunk of cancer. He probably thinks to himself .... "Those dummy country folk don't know nuttin' 'bout surgery."
 
We have 2 mom and pop lumber yards here and they are cheaper and alot better lumber. We also have an 84 lumber that has good materials to. Seem all home depot has are a few common boards and you have to sort thru a pipe of what looks like snow skis to find a straight board
 
Well SIR/// the citiots that I refer to are sucking the life out of upstate NY to pay for their food stamps and welfare payments and huge tax funding so they can ride the subway. We here in upstate NY are sick of supporting their lazy back sides.
The citiots that move up here with money move here and think they should have to be provided with all the services that they had in NYC. We ain't going to take their garbage to the transfer sight for them! They can get on their own high horse and take their own garbage to the transfer site. Our local hospitals can't afford big city doctors.
I hope you get my point.
Loren
 
"Stores too close together" reminds me of when SWMBO and I were in Vancouver BC- trying to find some place, and asked a passerby- he said, "Go up to 2 Starbucks corner, turn right, it's down about a block". "What is 2 Starbuck corner", we asked. He laughed and said "look for a Starbucks on the corner, then look kitty-corner across the street for another one".
 
As long as there are at least two, there is competition. At one time there was this network of transportation called the 'Railroad'. Before the Interstate system, they were the only way to efficiently move everything across country. Now, it's mostly trucks. If all those drivers got together they could set their own hours and pay.
 
It says they are closing the Rona on Columbis St in New Westminster.
That doesn't surprise me as they have the huge Lows mega store over by the casino in Queensburo. It actually wouldn't surprise me if they closed that eventually. It's always dead there.
Actually our Lowes in Nanaimo is pretty empty most of the time too.

I do like the Home Hardware stores and the Windsor Plywood.
 
Only in down town Vancouver would that work.
It's been that way for at least 15-20 years. I think the one store was a competing coffee shop and Starbucks decided to buy them out to remove the completion in a prime location.
It's ran that way for quite a while but I think they closed one of them down now.
 
Loren many here in wny feel the same way about NYC. Quite a bit of money leaves our area to "fund" many different things down state. Wheter it be money for construction projects, or taking care of all the dead beats there. It would be nice to see it be it's own entity, and try to make it without the rest of the states help. But that is a topic for another time !
 
I'm pretty sure our Lowe's has exactly one employee and that one can rarely be found and is too busy to help you. We have a good (relatively local to me) hardware store. They have oddball hard to find stuff and fair prices.

The small mom and pop lumber store nearby was awful and finally went out of business. The inside was in total disarray and they tried to sell me finger jointed 2x4's. Customers waiting for five minutes while owners SIL yacking on a personal phone call at the register he was supposed to be running.
 
We got the inverse. You could not find an employee at our lowes. I think they only have one or two.

At Home despot someone's asking me every 30 seconds if I need help with something. Must be a local management thing.
 
That's surprising here in Virginia the urban and more densely populated cites and counties put in more taxes than they get back in benefits and the rural areas get more than they
contribute in way of things like roads and state school money. This is because the urban folks make a lot more money and pay a lot more taxes than mostly rural areas plus the fuel tax collections in places like Northern VA next to DC is sky high.
 
The big stores sell what sells a lot of but the mom and pop stores have what you need. It may cost a little more but sometimes it's worth it
 
(quoted from post at 18:30:11 11/05/18) Let them all close. Bring back the mom and pop stores.
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You mean the little stores with short hours, little selection, high prices, and constant whining about the "new" competition? Yeah, give me some more of that.
 
(quoted from post at 00:49:12 11/06/18) Loren many here in wny feel the same way about NYC. Quite a bit of money leaves our area to "fund" many different things down state. Wheter it be money for construction projects, or taking care of all the dead beats there. It would be nice to see it be it's own entity, and try to make it without the rest of the states help. But that is a topic for another time !
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Cut the State off about the Tappan Zee or, better, just north of Albany and make 2 states. Both would suffer for the first few years but both would do better in the end. 2 completely different worlds.
 
(quoted from post at 04:59:33 11/06/18)
(quoted from post at 18:30:11 11/05/18) Let them all close. Bring back the mom and pop stores.
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You mean the little stores with short hours, little selection, high prices, and constant whining about the "new" competition? Yeah, give me some more of that.
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Agreed. Went through that in our little home town. The owners all started *****ing when their help left because the new Wal-Mart actually paid minimum wage and you didn't have to wash the owner's Cadillac for free on the weekend to keep your job.
 
Almost every time I go there, the service and help is terrible. No clerks to find or ask questions (they see you coming and run n hide) and if you do catch one they are usually young know nothing penciled neck pimpled geeks and it seems different people each time you visit. I tried to buy some bolts there once picked them out got to the counter where the clerk said I had to go back and put in plastic sacks and put the long SKU number on each, so I just slid them off the counter and left and went to a REAL mom n pop hardware store. Their service SUCKS

John T
 
Don't forget the "once it's out the door it's yours." I have a local mom-pop hardware store that reluctantly gave me a refund but said in the process:
"We take in money; we don't like to give it back." I had enough of that growing up......come on Big Box...rah rah rah!!!!!!!!!

Texas is booming and so are the BB stores. Plenty of folks to assist you if you ask. Since I'm retired I usually shop during the week when the store is
on minimum staffing but you still can stop someone and they will either take you to what you want or will find/call for someone who can. On weekends
staff and customers are everywhere.
 
no HD handy here and the lowes doesn't really have much

MENARDS for everything pretty much. little things i go to the mom and pop hardware stores. yeah their prices are higher for the same chineese stuff but you figure in time and gas to get to any Bigbox store and you've saved it at the local guy. actually cheaper on some stuff as you can still buy nails and screws in bulk
 
Thought 84 went out of bussiness 15 years ago. Home Depot not around, only one left that I knew of 8 years ago, most closed years ago. I know Lowes that my Late Wife worked for for over 15 years is usually quite a bit higher priced than Menards and that was with her emplowy discount.
 
Yep, got 2 mom and pop lumber yards in the area. They charge double for a 2X4 stud what either Menards or Home Depot charges. So if I need only one? Yea local is it. More than one? Pays to drive the 25 miles. But Menards, Home Depot and Walmart proved that our business owning neighbors were robbing us blind for years. Many years AFTER the box stores moved in they are still in business too. Even after reducing their prices.....many in our area by about 15%. Yup, friends and neighbors........fellow church members robbed us blind for years.

As far as those dumb city folks? Most of em are not drawing welfare. Percentage wise there are just as many living in rural areas on assistance as in the big cities. The majority make too much money. Heck lot of em make way more than you do ACG. And only do 40-60 hours a week, have good bennies and a nice retirement plan. And most farmers get subsidized crop insurance and the backdoor forced purchase of products in mandatory Ethanol and BIO fuel. So before you start whining why don't you take your hand out of my pocket? If I want to purchase products raised or produced by you I will of my own free will. Not cause you got some crooked politician to force it on me so you would vote for them.

Rick
 
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