Home Centers

Customer service, glue traps and corporate democracy were among the issues on the table at a wide-ranging Home Depot annual shareholders meeting in Atlanta Thursday.

Home Depot’s shareholders approved the company's recommendations for its board of directors and executive pay structure. And it defeated a shareholder proposal regarding shareholder control of corporate political gifts.

Coming soon: voice activated shopping at Home Depot with Google Assistant. 

The world's largest home improvement retailer promotes its spring job opportunities with a personal touch.

Midwestern retailer Menards is planning four stores in the Detroit market, where it currently has no presence, according to an article in the Detroit News.

Menards spokesman Jeff Abbott told the newspaper that the home improvement chain hopes to open stores in Warren, Livonia, Belleville and Chesterfield Township sometime next year.

Staffing changes – and maybe even layoffs – are pending at the Mooresville corporate office. (Source: Charlotte Observer.)

Sears and Kmart this week removed 31 Trump Home items from their e-commerce sites.

Lowe’s has lost a zoning battle to put a new store in East Hills, N.Y., on the North Shore of Long Island, according to an article in Newsday. Instead, the building will house a real estate investment firm.  

A woman was arrested in Fort Myers, Fla., for allegedly stealing four coils of copper wire from a Home Depot store, according to a report on WVZN-TV.

Amber Jones, 26, was confronted outside the store by an employee who said he saw her tuck the wire under a baby blanket next to a child, who was in a car seat.

The four rolls of copper wire were worth a combined $318.46.