Talk:Home Depot: Difference between revisions

Does anyone know the official license details for the picture of B&Q I put on this entry? I want to keep that image really, or at least one similar to it in terms ofa B&Q Warehouse. —This unsigned comment is by TR Wolf (talk • contribs) .

I'm not sure if a picture of B&Q is really relevant to this article. You might want to add it to the B&Q article though. I've also removed some of the language that implies that B&Q is simply the UK version of The Home Depot. There is no actual corporate connection between the two retailers (This Feb 2006 article discusses the lack of a bid from Home Depot to buy B&Q [1]). -- Bovineone 06:27, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The picture could be relevant to show how similar the two retailers are, but no its not essential. I dont think the B&Q link needed removing though. Anyone who's been round both retailers knows how incredibly identical they are.—This unsigned comment is by TR Wolf (talk • contribs) .

As an example, the Pepsi article doesn't have an "external link" to the base of Coca-Cola's main website or have pictures of Coke just because it is similar--if someone really wanted to find out more about Coke, they could follow the internal links or "See also" for Coca-Cola. It is fine to have an external link to a webpage that discussed Coke if it also discusses Pepsi in comparison, however. -- Bovineone 03:12, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently User:71.193.240.164 feels even more extreme about B&Q even being mentioned at all, and removed the B&Q section entirely[2]. -- Bovineone 18:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Home Depot's Stock Symbol is HD. --Patricknoddy 20:21, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Add it to the article, then. But don't add the external link; let people choose their own stock price tracker. —Morven 22:12, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure where this number of 109,000 square feet comes from. The Home Depot has two prototypical sizes for their floorplans, one approximately 102,000 (actually 102,215) square feet with an approximately 35,000 (actually 34,643) square foot Garden Center. The other is approximately 115,000 (actually 114,700) square feet with a Garden Center of the same size as the previous. There is a rectangular version of the 102k floor plan, and a square version, and each floor plan has a mirrored equivalent. Of all the different shapes and sizes, the rectangular 102k floor plan is the version most commonly chosen just because it seems to fit most easily on most sites.

The Home Depot also has a habit of buying the cheapest possible land to build on. The Home Depot in Colma, California, for example, is built on a landfill. VanGarrett 06:54, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the current state of play of the controversies around Home Depot and tropical wood products, that's why I came to this article; it'd be nice to have some info about that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.186.117.179 (talk • contribs) .

• Perhaps one operational issue that I'm aware of is the agressive introduction of automated cashier kiosks in many Home Depot stores. Since this was a potentially controversial HR issue, documents were sent out to shareholders last year to say that this automation would not displace any human jobs, and those personnel would simply be redeployed to assist customers on the floor instead. However I cannot attest to whether that actually has resulted in any measurable service improvement. -- Bovineone 03:32, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There was a controversy in Mountain View, California about a proposed Home Depot store in 2002. The city's voters eventually passed a referendum preventing Home Depot from building its planned store on the lot formerly occupied by an Emporium Capwell department store, so the landowner sold the land to a medical clinic instead. However, I think the objection was to the large amount of traffic and noise that the store would bring, which is a common complaint about all big box stores, not just Home Depot. --Coolcaesar 05:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Home Depot encounters a lot of that sort of thing in California, actually. They've developed a habit of taking over abandoned K-marts, though these attempts often become rather arduous. The city of Huntington Beach, California, for example, seems to have concluded that they'd prefer to keep their abandoned K-mart, as Home Depot has already purchased the land and has been trying to take over the site since early 2004. The city of Thousand Oaks, California has cropped up similar difficulties (I have personally worked as a draftsman on both of these projects, though I no longer work at that particular Civil firm). I also spent several months developing site plans for a location in Sutter Creek, California, a small city that was actually fairly agreeable to having a Home Depot, but Home Depot eventually backed out, largely due to difficulties with an emergency access easement, steep slopes requiring the building of an absurdly large retaining wall, and probably most importantly, an adjacent land owner who absolutely did not want such a store at that location. Last I knew, they were entertaining their alternatives in other nearby cities, such as Jackson, California, where the sites have deposits of arsenic.--VanGarrett 09:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added the bit about the drugs getting found in stuff people were buying from Home Depot. It'd be interesting to see how that plays out.
JesseG 23:13, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted the following image/text because it's just silly nonsense. There are many other retailers with "Depot" in their name, such as Office Depot -- Bovineone 04:06, 24 June 2006 (UTC):[reply]

The "pot in vanity" event is another piece of evidence that God puts cryptic messages in everyday logos that predict the future. In the Home Depot logo, if Depot is divided into "De" and "Pot", it is conclusive that "De" (which is Spanish for "of") causes the actual planned name of the chain to be "The House of Pot".'

Does anyone know who wrote that theme music that home depot uses? —This unsigned comment was added by K8cpa (talk • contribs) .

Ken Harrison wrote Home Depot's commercial spots for the 1997 Summer Olympic Games and their Winter Olympic spots for their Winter '98 Games [3]. -- Bovineone 02:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If I'd come across this sooner, my argument would have been there are no signs that say "the moon" or "the sun," but most (I can't say all, I haven't seen every store) says The Home Depot. But I digress...--Attitude2000 21:04, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(moved from article space to here)

Please note: The captions for these pictures are actually incorrect. The newer store design has the glass atrium in the front and the older design generally has black doors and no glass atrium. The newer store has a 12' roof instead of the 16' roof that the older stores did.

I assumed there was no "newer" design; the only different design I've seen from what is declared "older" is one that's part of an outdoor mall with high-class shops and a movie theater.--Attitude2000 21:01, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where I live, it seems as though everywhere you see a Lowe's, a Home Depot is not far by, most of the time within viewing distance. Is this common anywhere else?--Attitude2000 21:02, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In my area, it's not like that. Lowe's and Home Depot are very distance from each other.