"[BEIJING] Home Depot Inc., the U.S.-based home improvement retailer, said
Friday it will close its remaining seven big box outlets in China and focus
on Internet-based sales and specialty stores."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_1...g-box-outlets/

Other reports (WSJ - behind a paywall) attribute the Home Depot failure to
labor being so cheap in China that home and apartment dwellers find it
cheaper to hire work done rather than do it themselves.

HeyBub wrote:

Other reports (WSJ - behind a paywall) attribute the Home Depot
failure to labor being so cheap in China that home and apartment
dwellers find it cheaper to hire work done rather than do it
themselves.

So when these affluent Chinese home and appartment dwellers hire someone
to perform some work, install some new fixture, etc - where do the
hired contractors buy the materials / fixtures / tools ???

Large contractors have traditionally had enough contacts on the
wholesale side that they didn't need to buy stuff at retail outlets, but
Home Despot (and other similar big-box building stores) have enabled
more people to get into the contracting business on a smaller scale. I
would have thought the same would apply in China too.

I’m guessing that they have little mom and pop operations
that manufacture their own doors, windows etc.
Since they don’t have to worry about environmental
and labor regulations or quality control like we do
they can do it very cheap and they don’t even have to pay
a middle-man like Home Depot.

Walmart? Harbor Freight?

Christopher A. Young
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"Doit Yourself" wrote in message
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So when these affluent Chinese home and appartment
dwellers hire someone to perform some work, install
some new fixture, etc - where do the hired contractors
buy the materials / fixtures / tools ???

On 9/16/2012 3:21 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:

So when these affluent Chinese home and appartment
dwellers hire someone to perform some work, install
some new fixture, etc - where do the hired contractors
buy the materials / fixtures / tools ???

Most Chinese people live in tiny little company owned dormitories. They
have nothing to remodel.

"Harvey Specter" wrote in message
eb.com...

"Doit Yourself" wrote in message
...

So when these affluent Chinese home and appartment
dwellers hire someone to perform some work, install
some new fixture, etc - where do the hired contractors
buy the materials / fixtures / tools ???

Most Chinese people live in tiny little company owned dormitories. They
have nothing to remodel.

In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

"Harvey Specter" wrote in message
eb.com...

"Doit Yourself" wrote in message
...

So when these affluent Chinese home and appartment
dwellers hire someone to perform some work, install
some new fixture, etc - where do the hired contractors
buy the materials / fixtures / tools ???

Most Chinese people live in tiny little company owned dormitories. They
have nothing to remodel.

So now you're bottom posting, since one of your top-posts screwed up an
attribution? Did you bump your head or something?

A friend of mine just spent 7 years living in Beijing. He and his wife
bought 3 apartments there, and "remodeled" all of them. I put remodeled
in quotes, because brand new apartments there are unfinished. Basically
just roughed-in structures. Plumbing, electrical, drywall, flooring,
interior doors, lighting, is primitive to non-existent when you move in.
At one place, there wasn't even a bathroom door when they bought it. He
insisted the seller install one, and when he came back, the new bathroom
door was clear glass.

The Chinese people, by and large, have never seen plumbing and wiring
concealed inside walls. Bathrooms are wet rooms, with a shower head in
one corner and a drain in the middle of the floor. No tub or shower
enclosure at all. The toilet *is* the hole in the floor.

Virtually every time my friend hired a "tradesman," the work was done
wrong, and he made them rip it out and start over, under his
supervision. They've never heard of levels. They don't know you're
supposed to use a wye instead of a T in drain pipes. Etcetera ad
infinitum. So, I guess they don't need Home Depots, because everything
is so primitive, and they seem fine with it like that. Even paint is
rare to unheard of.

They metamorphose into the king and queen of England
when they buy a home here in the U.S. though.
If anything is even just a little bit off
you don’t get paid until it’s completely right.

In article ,
HeyBub wrote:
"[BEIJING] Home Depot Inc., the U.S.-based home improvement retailer, said
Friday it will close its remaining seven big box outlets in China and focus
on Internet-based sales and specialty stores."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_1...g-box-outlets/

Other reports (WSJ - behind a paywall) attribute the Home Depot failure to
labor being so cheap in China that home and apartment dwellers find it
cheaper to hire work done rather than do it themselves.

HD didn't build the stores, they bought out a copycat chain The Home
Way. My first thought was that closing them was all part of the plan.

m

Go back and read that. There was nothing bottom posted, I corrected the
attribution.

Sounds like the Chinese use the same quality as they do when making products
for Walmart? The clear door to the bathroom is comical, in its tragedy.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

"Smitty Two" wrote in message
...

So now you're bottom posting, since one of your top-posts screwed up an
attribution? Did you bump your head or something?

A friend of mine just spent 7 years living in Beijing. He and his wife
bought 3 apartments there, and "remodeled" all of them. I put remodeled
in quotes, because brand new apartments there are unfinished. Basically
just roughed-in structures. Plumbing, electrical, drywall, flooring,
interior doors, lighting, is primitive to non-existent when you move in.
At one place, there wasn't even a bathroom door when they bought it. He
insisted the seller install one, and when he came back, the new bathroom
door was clear glass.

The Chinese people, by and large, have never seen plumbing and wiring
concealed inside walls. Bathrooms are wet rooms, with a shower head in
one corner and a drain in the middle of the floor. No tub or shower
enclosure at all. The toilet *is* the hole in the floor.

Virtually every time my friend hired a "tradesman," the work was done
wrong, and he made them rip it out and start over, under his
supervision. They've never heard of levels. They don't know you're
supposed to use a wye instead of a T in drain pipes. Etcetera ad
infinitum. So, I guess they don't need Home Depots, because everything
is so primitive, and they seem fine with it like that. Even paint is
rare to unheard of.

On Sunday, September 16, 2012 7:55:54 AM UTC-4, HeyBub wrote:
"[BEIJING] Home Depot Inc., the U.S.-based home improvement retailer, said

Friday it will close its remaining seven big box outlets in China and focus

on Internet-based sales and specialty stores."



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_1...g-box-outlets/



Other reports (WSJ - behind a paywall) attribute the Home Depot failure to

labor being so cheap in China that home and apartment dwellers find it

cheaper to hire work done rather than do it themselves.

I say they ought to beat the mother ****ing executives to death. The justice cartels are unconstitutional. Nixon voters are cheap peices of ****.

On Sunday, September 16, 2012 9:17:52 PM UTC-4, Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,

"Stormin Mormon" wrote:



"Harvey Specter" wrote in message

eb.com...



"Doit Yourself" wrote in message

...



So when these affluent Chinese home and appartment

dwellers hire someone to perform some work, install

some new fixture, etc - where do the hired contractors

buy the materials / fixtures / tools ???



Most Chinese people live in tiny little company owned dormitories. They

have nothing to remodel.



So now you're bottom posting, since one of your top-posts screwed up an

attribution? Did you bump your head or something?



A friend of mine just spent 7 years living in Beijing. He and his wife

bought 3 apartments there, and "remodeled" all of them. I put remodeled

in quotes, because brand new apartments there are unfinished. Basically

just roughed-in structures. Plumbing, electrical, drywall, flooring,

interior doors, lighting, is primitive to non-existent when you move in.

At one place, there wasn't even a bathroom door when they bought it. He

insisted the seller install one, and when he came back, the new bathroom

door was clear glass.



The Chinese people, by and large, have never seen plumbing and wiring

concealed inside walls. Bathrooms are wet rooms, with a shower head in

one corner and a drain in the middle of the floor. No tub or shower

enclosure at all. The toilet *is* the hole in the floor.



Virtually every time my friend hired a "tradesman," the work was done

wrong, and he made them rip it out and start over, under his

supervision. They've never heard of levels. They don't know you're

supposed to use a wye instead of a T in drain pipes. Etcetera ad

infinitum. So, I guess they don't need Home Depots, because everything

is so primitive, and they seem fine with it like that. Even paint is

rare to unheard of.

I say if you are a friend of theirs get the **** out of my country and go there ****ing capitalist piece of ****.