Home Depot, Lowe's giving Vets Day military discounts

By Karen Jowers
Staff writer


The world’s two largest home-improvement retailers are offering 10 percent
discounts to active-duty personnel, reservists, retired military, veterans
and their families in honor of Veterans Day.

• Lowe’s Companies Inc. the second largest chain, will offer the discount
Nov. 10-12, on in-stock purchases up to $5,000. To qualify, customers must
present a valid military identification or other proof of service such as
veteran’s ID or discharge papers, or Veterans of Foreign Wars card. The
company also offered discounts during the 2006 Memorial Day and July 4th
holiday weekends. Excluded from the discount are online sales, previous
sales, special order items, installation fees, gift cards, Fisher & Paykel
appliances, Dyson vacuums, John Deere products and Krups small appliances.


Lowe’s has more than 1,325 home improvement stores in 49 states.

• The Home Depot will offer the discount from Nov. 9-12, on purchases up to
$2,000, at The Home Depot stores, The Home Depot Floor Store locations, The
Home Depot Landscape Supply stores and EXPO Design Center locations.
Customers must go to the Special Services desk in the store, and show proof
of military service, such as an ID card. They will receive a coupon that can
be redeemed at any cashier’s checkout register, on a single receipt,
in-store purchase only.

As the nation’s largest home improvement The Home Depot has 2,109 retail
stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin
Islands, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The company also has offered
discount sale weekends to the military community earlier this year and in
previous years.





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