Home Depot, Wal Mart, K Mart... etc

[deepinwonder]

These stores are not getting better, like a lot of analysts are saying on tv. They are all firing employees right and left, not stocking their shelves, and leaving the cutomers to deal with spotty merchandise, long waits, terrible service, etc. AWFUL!!! Is this a trend with all retail stores now or what? We don't have that many to choose from in our area, so I can't tell. Our grocery store (Food Lion) is just as bad. Three or four years ago, these stores were not this terrible, but they are now. I wouldn't touch any of these stocks with a ten foot pole.

[aj14]

These stores are not getting better, like a lot of analysts are saying on tv. They are all firing employees right and left, not stocking their shelves, and leaving the cutomers to deal with spotty merchandise, long waits, terrible service, etc. AWFUL!!! Is this a trend with all retail stores now or what? We don't have that many to choose from in our area, so I can't tell. Our grocery store (Food Lion) is just as bad. Three or four years ago, these stores were not this terrible, but they are now. I wouldn't touch any of these stocks with a ten foot pole.

Too big to grow earnings by expansion, so they revert to cutting services, or in the case of HD, making acquisitions...think HUG.
Low is the best of the bunch, but still pretty expensive.
WMT has the looming recession driving people into its stores to find cheap goods. But can they make money?
HD is a mess, and has accounting irregularities hanging over its head.

[Jazen]

Any Wal-Mart I go into around me is a pit, the merchandise is frequently strewn about the aisle and the stores themselves are dirty. Plus, Wal-Mart gives contracts to people who hire illegals and have been busted on this twice now. Don't tell me they didn't know the company employed illegals. Home Depot is that bad yet, but you have to beg someone to help you when you go in there and then you get a dirty look for breaking up the employee coffee clutch. When the bubble breaks the Depot will fall. Wal-Mart is already on it's way down IMHO.

[deepinwonder]

I got two dirty looks in the past two weeks at Home Depot, because I needed to buy some paint and they had to mix it. EXCUUUUUSE ME!! lol Tried to buy a vent free fireplace yesterday with my husband, they were only sent two, sold out in the first day, don't know if they'll send our store anymore. The manager said they fired all the buyers except two to increase their bottom line, bottom line is, lower sales.

[Affirmed]

I got two dirty looks in the past two weeks at Home Depot, because I needed to buy some paint and they had to mix it. EXCUUUUUSE ME!! lol Tried to buy a vent free fireplace yesterday with my husband, they were only sent two, sold out in the first day, don't know if they'll send our store anymore. The manager said they fired all the buyers except two to increase their bottom line, bottom line is, lower sales.

Im still trying to figure out what a vent free fireplace is :?

[deepinwonder]

You can easily install them in your house without venting the gas to the outside, they burn more cleanly than a gas cooking stove, too. They also have zero clearance, which means you don't need large amounts of space around them. Where we live, power outages are frequent, and it would not only improve the value of our home, but provide back up heat if and when power goes out in the winter. Nice ambiance, too. :lol:

[John Paul Sanborn]

Any Wal-Mart I go into around me is a pit, the merchandise is frequently strewn about the aisle and the stores themselves are dirty.

Sounds like K-mart when I was a kid "there's a broken light special in isle 12"

[deepinwonder]

Sounds like K-mart when I was a kid "there's a broken light special in isle 12"

Sounds like the KMart we have around here, except that broken light special they advertised in the flier they stuffed in our mailboxes to get us in the store is not really in stock, never was in stock, and never will be... raincheck or no raincheck. If it was, they probably wouldn't give you a refund on it, anyway. You opened the box, it's your problem now, sucker. :D

[ki klempa]

deepinwonder it might be your area., here in Massachusetts the shelves are always full., I wait until Wed a day after senior citizens discount day and they stock the shelves to the limit., our stores are always packed< ie LOWES, KOHLS., WALMART, SEARS, so in my area we have tons of those stores so maybe that is why - more choices?? not sure... I have w/ 5-10 miles 2/3 kohls, 2 best buy, 2 home depot, 3 starbucks, 2 lowes, 1 walmart, 1 sears, 2 toyr us, I'm thinking of adding a great retailer to my porfolio so I'm doing the research on Wed, any stores that have long lines and empty merchandise will go on my watch list and I'll see what names are hot., my secret pick maybe HPQ/GME, I should of picked them up in Sept but I was too broke.... in Walmart the hp laptops sold out in 10 sec., they are promising more Wed, we'll see..

Kim

[deepinwonder]

WalMart and Home Depot are always packed around here, KMart's parking lot is mostly empty. Of those sorts of stores, I guess I like Lowe's stock the best, because of their CEO and merchandise, but it wouldn't be my first choice in retailers this time of year. :roll: