Re: Garden.com
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- Subject: Re: Garden.com
- From: T*
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:25:25 -0500
On 1/20/01 9:06 AM Dean Sliger (deanslgr@juno.com) said:
>Home Depot isn't "causing" anything. The people causing the demise of
>those smaller stores are the customers who go to one instead of the
>other, and the stores who aren't providing what the customers want. Home
>Depot actively competes with Lowe's; I doubt either pays any attention to
>what the smaller stores are doing.
Well, when Home Depot blankets a market with stores every 5 or 6 miles
and that does cause things to happen. Within a 15 or 20 minute drive of
where I'm sitting, are probably 5 HDs. Builders Square couldn't compete
and Lowe's is an also-ran in the St Pete/Tampa market.
Tom Miller
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