Looks like a lot of them are in Canada.
From then on it was SJW rules.
As I understand 35 are in Canada.
Vast majority are Canadian stores.
The two Michigan stores aren’t in the best area. Probably not a whole lot of home improvement going on.
I live in a rural town in Kentucky. We have a lowes that serves a LOT of other small towns around us. I just found out that the lowes in Lousville that I pass every day on my way to work has MUCH better lumber prices. I’m done with the local store other than for small stuff.
Mostly Canada - 24 there I think, 4 in California, the rest are onesies and twosies per state.
The closures are split between Canada and the US. (List via CNN)
Alabama
1100 Bankhead Hwy SW, Graysville
California
26501 Aliso Creek Rd, Aliso Viejo
13300 Jamboree Rd, Irvine
720 Dubuque Ave, South San Francisco
750 Newhall Dr, San Jose
Connecticut
48 Boston Post Rd, Orange
Illinois
1333 Schaefer Rd, Granite City
7735 Grand Ave, Gurnee
Indiana
6221 US Hwy 6, Portage
Louisiana
5770 Read Blvd, New Orleans
Massachusetts
599 Thomas Burgin Pkwy, Quincy
Michigan
4274 E Court St, Burton
2100 T.A. Mansour Blvd, Flint
Minnesota
2015 Bassett Dr, Mankato
Missouri
11974 Paul Mayer Ave, Bridgeton
3180 N Hwy 67, Florissant
New York
2008 Broadway, New York
635-641 6th Ave, New York
Pennsylvania
250 South Conestoga Dr, Shippensburg
Texas
3500 W Airport Fwy, Irving
British Columbia
(Rona) 105-1015 Columbia Street, New Westminster
Alberta
(Rona) 11520 — 24th Street SE, Calgary
(Reno-Depot) 12330 Symons Valley Road NW, Calgary
Ontario
Rona:
1133 Dundas Street West, Mississauga
1692 Lakeshore Rd, Mississauga
132 Black Road, Sault Ste. Marie
943 Barry Downe Road, Sudbury
1575 Chemong Road, Peterborough
1452 Bath Road, Kingston
178 Water Street, Lakefield
Lowe’s:
6600 Yonge Street, North York
248 Northern Avenue, Sault Ste. Marie
Québec
Rona:
335, Route 209, Sainte-Clotilde-de-Chateauguay
870, boulevard d’Iberville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
723, boulevard L’Ange-Gardien, L’Assomption
788, rue Moeller, Grandby
134, boulevard Sainte-Rose, Laval
9200, boulevard Maurice-Duplessis, Montréal
1200, rue Mantha, Rouyn-Noranda
194, rue Principale, Ange-Gardien
100, rue du Parc Industriel, Saint Elzéar
Newfoundland
Rona:
825 Conception Bay Hwy, Conception Bay
53-59 Main Highway, Goulds
1297 Topsail Road, St. John’s
60 O’Leary Avenue, St. John’s
710 Torbay Road, St. John’s
239 Conception Bay, Bay Roberts
The truth is that we have WAY too much retail space in the US. There’s 23 square feet of store for every man, woman, and child in America. Canada is second with 16 and Australia is third with 11. In Europe it’s more like 5, and yet I’ve never felt a lack of places to shop in Europe. Ultimately, it’s unsustainable and we’re going to end up with a lot of empty space. The interesting question is what’s going to happen to it. They’re already turning dead malls into residences, entertainment venues, community centers and stuff like that.
“Industry experts have said that Home Depot has better real estate than Lowe’s and has invested more in its e-commerce fulfillment.”
In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Home Depot and Lowe’s are only two miles apart. Both stores are ok as far as big box stores go; decent selection at good prices.
But Lowe’s has failed to keep up in many areas. Check out at Lowe’s is slow, few registers are open, and lines can be long; there is no self-check-out. Returns are a total disaster at Lowe’s and are often so fouled up they take 30 minutes. At HD, a return can take less than a minute with or without receipt.
Finding knowledgable people is much harder at Lowe’s.
The Lowe’s online experience is just awful while the HD online experience is really excellent and now in Amazon-class. HD makes it easy to find products on their site, add them to the cart, and pay for them. There are no shipping charges if you pick the products up in the store. I can find obscure parts for $1 or $2 that I need on the HD site that aren’t in the Lowe’s site and have them available for pickup in a couple of days.
Lowe’s has fallen way behind HD in many areas. These closures do not surprise me.
Just a quibble, but the phrase is “STANCH the bleeding.””Staunch” is generally an adjective meaning strong or unyielding.
I buy almost everything from Home Depot if I can. They keep track of all my purchases for tax time.
Lowe’s does, but one year I went to get my printout and it was all gone. They couldn’t help me. So I have bought almost nothing from them in the years since.
Maybe they’ve corrected the problem, but why would I want to take the chance?
Always second fiddle to Home Depot......
Home Despot stuck me with a bad returned water heater that they sold as new.
Crooks.
high rent in NYC and people do not do repairs of their new homes?
New York
2008 Broadway, New York
635-641 6th Ave, New York by 19th st
This is something O”bama should be proud of.
This is the economy he started, now its being reported on and people are acting on old financial information and old market conditions.
Canada? When America catchs a cold, Canada gets pneumonia.
The people are making the wrong decisions in the closures.
The Obama legacy lives on!!!
More evidence of his attack on the America economy.
It’s all Trump’s fault! s/
Retail Apocolypse”? Really?
50 stores out of about 2000? Surely, general changes in neighborhoods and geographic retail areas account for some closings every year. This is hardly an “apocolypse.”
But “apocolypse” is a convenient word for the MSM to use in describing the economy in the Trump era.
Maybe they shouldn’t have built them across the street or next door to a Home Depot.
“Lowe’s, a hardware and home improvement store that has been around for 72 years”
Misleading.
Only been a big national chain well-known for about 25. Just like Wal-Mart, and Home Despot, and all the other “big-box” cookie-cutter chains.