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The Home Depot is dedicated to making a positive environmental impact everyday. Now with the Eco Options brand, we have made it easy for you to identify products that make a difference, one choice at a time.

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Two Giant Retail Chains Say Sales Are Slumping
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Nov
11

A few years back we executed a mission that involved repeating time. Ever since then I’ve wanted to try something that stopped or slowed down time. How would people react if they found themselves surrounded by people moving forward at a different rate or time It also helped that the store is located on the [...]

Nov
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Home Depot likes to say: Good Things Happen When Home Depot Comes to Town. Many communities around the nation have fought bitterly to prevent Home Depot’s brand of good things from happening to their town. Here is a home-town tour of communities that have had close encounters with the orange-blooded company:

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Nov
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Communities considering a Home Depot application need to seriously examine their fire-fighting capacity. In May, 1995, a fire broke out at the Home Depot in Quincy, MA. The Patriot Ledger described the fire this way:

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Around the Mountains: Fingers wagged after [...]

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According to a media story in the December 18, 1995 issue of the Fairfield County (CT) Business Journal, in November of 1995, a lawsuit was filed in Stamford, CT Superior Court, claiming that two Home Depot employees at a Danbury store refused to accept a customer’s return of a $155 thermostat. The lawsuit claims that [...]

Nov
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Home Depot says that taking care of customers is our  priority. HD took care of Soon Kim–but not the way she expected.According to a personal injury lawsuit filed in April, 1997 in King County, WA. Superior Court, Kim, a 51 year old woman, suffered a traumatic head injury shortly before Xmas in 1995 at a [...]

Nov
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Every HD store has a budget for making contributions to local community organizations, says HD. Its workers volunteer their time to make our communities better places to live. We do more than just hand our checks to charities, says HD, we help make advances in community service, environmental concerns, etc. The fact is, HD says [...]

Nov
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Home Depot places great emphasis on its workforce. Our people set us apart from our competitors,” they brag. Sounding like an episode from the X-files, Bernie Marcus explains that “The Home Depot culture is passed on generation to generation of orange-blooded associates.

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Nov
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The signs are obvious. The home improvement industry’s retail food chain is being eaten from the bottom up. The mom and pop stores withered, and now the regional chains are dying. Companies like Rickles, Handy Andy, and Grossman’s are history. In 1993, After one year in the Chicago market, Home Base closed all its stores [...]

Nov
11

All across America, the headlines in daily newspapers describe a battle between citizens’ groups and a company that one magazine describes as “America’s most admired retailer”. If Home Depot is so admirable, why are so many community groups and homeowners fighting hammer and tong to keep them out? Here is another side of Home Depot [...]