Lowe's Home Improvement Stores - NH

Bigstan · 10-17-2011, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by fpartri497

Who Is next? In case you havent noticed There is a trend happening all accross the country. company after company is closing. we had all better lear how to speak chinese.

As long as we have unions we will lose manufacturing jobs to Asia / S. America / etc... , that is hardly anything new, get used to it. If we keep losing the technology jobs to Asia / India then we really have to worry.
We cannot survive long term on service and govt subsidized industires (defense, teachers, CCC type construction) alone. What to do?

Irish mist · 10-18-2011, 02:08 AM

Lowe's shadowing of Home Depot, and placing a store every place that HD was located, was a lazy excuse for a business plan. It's coming back to bite them now. Most Lowe's have too many people working in their stores. I was there today & there seemed like and endless stream of workers just strolling about & talking with their fellow workers like it was a holiday.

VitaBene · 10-18-2011, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Irish mist

Lowe's shadowing of Home Depot, and placing a store every place that HD was located, was a lazy excuse for a business plan.

Sounds like the major drug store chains!

secondcurve · 10-18-2011, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by VitaBene

Sounds like the major drug store chains!

And fast food outfits and automobile dealers, etc. It wasn't the store location strategy that doomed them it was the overly rosy assumptions about future growth that was the killer. Nothing grows to the moon.

TheProfessor · 10-19-2011, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigstan

As long as we have unions we will lose manufacturing jobs to Asia / S. America / etc... , that is hardly anything new, get used to it. If we keep losing the technology jobs to Asia / India then we really have to worry.
We cannot survive long term on service and govt subsidized industires (defense, teachers, CCC type construction) alone. What to do?

Only 11.9 % of the US workforce is a member of a union.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

None of the Lowe's in question had union employees.

Mirror Lake's BB · 10-19-2011, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by TheProfessor

Only 11.9 % of the US workforce is a member of a union.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

None of the Lowe's in question had union employees.

Is there something I'm missing? I don't think the Lowes stores in question "manufacture" anything.

And believe me, I am upset at all the manufacturing that we have lost; and not necessarily due to unions.

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Irish mist Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 686 Thanks: 128 Thanked 85 Times in 49 Posts	Lowe's shadowing of Home Depot, and placing a store every place that HD was located, was a lazy excuse for a business plan. It's coming back to bite them now. Most Lowe's have too many people working in their stores. I was there today & there seemed like and endless stream of workers just strolling about & talking with their fellow workers like it was a holiday.