Home Centers

For the second time, Lowe's has been denied permission to build a store in Brighton...

An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch examines the Midwest retail giant’s expansion around St. Louis.

Family Dollar Stores has announced the appointment of Jon Broz to the position of VP and assistant general counsel, litigation. Broz comes to Family Dollar from Lowe's, where he served most recently as VP and assistant general counsel, litigation.

Prior to joining Lowe's, Broz worked for Collective Brands, and previous to that, he was a litigation partner at Husch & Eppenberger (now Husch Blackwell Sanders) in Kansas City, Mo.

The Home Depot Canada has joined other Canadian retailers in complying with the government's planned phaseout of the penny.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) officially issued the trademark for a variety of Menards lawn and garden products.

The Eau Claire, Wis.-based home center retailer filed its application Aug. 2, 2011, and was officially given the trademark March 20.

The yard and lawn applications include lawn mowers, mechanical spreaders for seed and dry lawn chemicals, and mechanical lawn aerators. The brand also applies to power tools such as blowers, edgers, lawn trimmers and hedge shears.

Menards is looking to open as many as six stores in the Kansas City metro area, according to an article in the Kansas City Business Journal.

Two men used counterfeit dollars to purchase items at several Lowe’s stores in Florida and Alabama and then returned the items for cash, according to an article in the Press Register.

Two members of a retail theft ring charged with stealing more than $100,000 worth of merchandise from Lowe’s stores in five western states were convicted of multiple felony counts by a federal jury in the western district of Washington State.