On Monday, June 16, 2014 4:33:27 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:






Then Home Depot opened up and they had a pretty good selection. I could get

95% of everything I needed at Home Depot, and the price was better on most

of it. Slowly other businesses started specializing even more and cutting

back selection in favor of only those things they could compete on or went

out of business completely. Over the last few years I have noticed Home

Depot has reduced their selection and started stocking cheaper lower quality

alternatives to many things they do stock.


In the Seattle area there was a hardware chain called Eagle. Their motto was more of everything. And they did carry a lot of different items. They carried 20 plus hammers ( not counting sledge hammers ). Then Lowes bought them. Their motto is now "less of everything."