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

To: mauser96 who wrote (669)	5/18/1999 11:42:00 AM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1169

I have to disagree with you. I don't think HD will ever be an online company. Larger tools perhaps, but not hardware and job supplies. Home Depot is full of customers on the weekends. Many of us who work are weekend fixerupers. The supplies we need are at our fingertips and right in front of us as well as so many items we didn't know we needed or forget we needed. Most repair and fix it jobs are done on the spur of the moment and cannot be ordered online. If you are doing a tile job, you can not wait for your grout by carrier. If you are doing a plumbing job, you cannot wait a week for the extra 10 ft of pipe....and so on. Besides, an inexpensive bag of cement would cost a fortune to have mailed. The longer the time passes without HD establishing dominance and brand name awareness, the harder it will be. Home Depot seems to have done a fine job of establishing dominance in their field. As far as brand name, what are you expecting? Do you want Home Depot to have their on label? There are many items in the construction industry that are the top of the line items and are spec'ed for a job. Materials would need to go through testing and meet certain standards and criteria and would be unreasonable for HD to establish themselves as a brand name in those areas, and best left up to the individual manufacturers. Home Depot does a great job warehousing and selling these products. I don't see how HD is flubbing the future.