Depot's big problem: success

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Former Home Depot Exec VP James Inglis's speech at the November '96 Home Center Presidents' Council accused Home Depot of having a corporate culture obsessed with efficiency. As a result, its new ventures into drive-through lumber yards, CrossRoads, and interior decoration, Expo, are not as profitable as its core home center stores. Inglis described the Sears acquisition of Orchard Supply Hardware as 'brilliant,' and applauded Sears for having a more flexible corporate culture that has kept it from being damaged by Home Depot's explosive growth.

All Other Home Furnishings Stores, Misc. homefurnishings stores, Home Furnishings Stores NEC, Editorial, Analysis, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Biography, Home furnishings industry, Corporate culture, Sears, Roebuck and Co., S, Speeches, lectures and essays, Home furnishings stores, Orchard Supply Hardware Corp., Inglis, James

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It's box vs. box in Louisville

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The opening of 3 chain big box home center stores has yet to severely impact independent hardware stores in Louisville, Kentucky. The Home Depot and Lowe's Companies Inc opened stores in 1996. Home Quarter Warehouse was already established in the city. Regional chain Jacob Levy Bros. Inc has revised expansion plans and opened smaller stores to offset the major chains. At H&S Ace Hardware, ceo Stanley Sokowsky promises to hold on to the business he's developed.

Lowe's Companies Inc., LOW, Louisville, Kentucky, Home Quarters Warehouse Inc.

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Home Depot opens ex-CrossRoads in Colombia

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A new Home Depot unit has opened in Columbia, Ohio, in a facility that was once the former CrossRoads store, a rural retail concept created by Home Depot. The new Home Depot has retained some of the merchandise that made CrossRoads unique, including farm and garden supplies. However, the 120,000- sq-ft store is already facing competition from a nearby Lowe's unit.

Ohio, Location

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