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Non-Tech : Home Depot (HD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Lawrence who wrote (1070)	10/21/2002 3:46:50 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1169

How much does Home Depot pay you to call any of their dissatisfied customers liars? You only show up on the board in response to negative commentary, and your response time to negative commentary is almost instantaneous, which means you constantly monitor the board. You've previously stated you have no position in the stock, which would pretty much eliminate any typical motivation to keep that close a watch on a thread. If your attitude is typical of those running Home Depot, it's no wonder your same store sales are in the toilet. Of course you spend a ton of money opening a new store every couple days, finance the cost off the balance sheet, and tell investors about your growth, but if your customers don't come back because you can't afford to properly stock your stores, you can kiss the baby good-bye. There's a local chain in my area, McLindon's, that has been happily stomping you guys flat. When you guys screwed up and chopped your inventory by 15%, they stepped in with well stocked super stores and buried you. Go back to your bosses and tell them they are idiots to pay a moron like you to defend a hopeless position.