16 ordspråk av Chris Ahearn
Chris Ahearn
Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So instead of the stock market, people were investing in their homes.
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Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products,
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Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products.
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In some instances we've petitioned the zoning board for variances.
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It's gone very, very well.
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It's our goal to have a wide range of power tools at every price point. We're always looking for opportunities to enhance that.
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Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence,
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Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence.
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They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this year caused great demand across the country. Manufacturers are producing them as fast as possible.
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This area has twice the rate of sales growth compared to our traditional business.
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We have 53 stores in California and we consider it to be a major area of expansion.
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We have storm recovery teams ... leaving in the next day or so. The issue is places for them to stay and road closures,
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We have storm recovery teams ... leaving in the next day or so. The issue is places for them to stay and road closures.
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We will host as many of these as we need to.
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We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means, ... What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.
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