Home Centers

The newest Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores outpost recently opened its doors in Muskogee, Oklahoma, marking 34 Sears Hometown openings in 2014 overall and the 16th Sears Hometown and Outlet.

Highfield Door Sales, a Kettering, Ohio, business that installs garage door openers for nine local Lowe’s stores, has purchased and is renovating a 20,000-sq.-ft. former wine and beer warehouse store to expand its operations, according to an article in the Dayton Daily News. 

The family-owned business, which started in 2009 with just one employee, currently operates out of a leased 1,700-sq.-ft. building in this Dayton-area town.

Following a 14-day protest by the Ohio & Vicinity Regional Council of Carpenters, Menards Stores...

The embattled Sears Holdings is taking all the help it can get, even if that means reaching into the pockets of its CEO, Edward Lampert.

According to an SEC filing submitted on Monday, the retailer is securing a $400 million loan from ESL Investments, Lampert's hedge fund, which will be used for as-of-yet unspecified purposes.

Lampert -- and by extension, ESL Investments -- currently stands as Sears Holdings' biggest shareholder. However, ESL lowered its stake in Sears less than a year ago due to pressure from wary investors.

Mohawk is recalling its Altitude Gold shag rugs that are sold exclusively at Home Depot, citing a failure to meet federal flammability standards.

Specifically, the rugs do not meet federal labeling standards, which require rugs to have the following statement on a permanent lablel: “FLAMMABLE (FAILS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE STANDARD FF 2-70): SHOULD NOT BE USED NEAR SOURCES OF IGNITION.”

A Lowe’s employee accused of writing threatening letters to Robert Niblock, the CEO of Lowe’s,...

Lowe's announced that it will enter its first two stores in Manhattan. The home improvement giant has two locations slated to open in the second half of 2015, one at 2008 Broadway at West 68th Street, and a second at 635 6th Avenue at West 19th Street. 

Sunbelt Rentals, the Fort Mills, S.C., equipment and tool rental company, has closed 50 of...