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To: AllansAlias who wrote (21967)9/26/2000 11:06:51 PM
From: Ilaine   of 436258
 
Don't know what it's like where you are, but Home Depot has run almost everything else that sells hardware into bankruptcy around here, except Sears, WalMart, K-Mart and auto stores. Lowe's is a similar outfit, but cheaper. True Value hardware stores are just hanging on by their fingernails.

When I shop at Home Depot early in the morning, a lot of contractors are in there stocking up for the work day, and they run in there during the day to pick up things they need. So I disagree that it's entirely discretionary income being spent there, although there's a lot of that, too, especially in the upscale Expo stores they've got going now.

Sat next to a real estate agent on the plane last night, she says the housing boom is still going strong in the Fairfax, VA metro area, not so much in Arlington or Alexandria or Loudoun.
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