Atlanta, GA

Homeowners in southeast Atlanta feel like they dodged a bullet this week. According to media reports, a developer has publicly confirmed that a large Wal-Mart

Who would know Home Depot better than the residents of Atlanta, the company’s hometown. Despite Agent Orange’s hometown feeling, residents are fighting hammer and nail

Just a few weeks after Wal-Mart announced in the Wall Street Journal that it was going to start building smaller 40,000 s.f stores because its

Wal-Mart has learned over time that if you want to get into Big City markets in America, you first have to get into the offices

Home Depot’s pipeline of new stores has a hole in it — and it’s bleeding orange. Citizen opposition to stores is partly to blame for

You can understand big corporations by how they treat little people. Another book slamming Wal-Mart’s corporate practices has been written — this one by a

A little good news from Wall Street this past week. Home Depot stock got hammered, reaching a near four year low. The drop in stock

Sometimes it takes a big company a long time to understand a little message. But the world’s largest home improvement retailer, because it is running

Home Depot has always been a “fun” kind of place, with merry, productive ‘orange-blooded’ workers busy making sales under the watchful eye of their extravagantly-paid

The departure of Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli on January 2nd has proven that a golden parachute looks even better in orange. Nardelli left Home

In one of the more tortured twists of logic, one of the world’s largest producers of wasteful sprawl, is going to plant thousands of trees

You thought Home Depot was only good at importing Chinese ceiling fans? Actually, the world’s largest home improvement chain appears to be willing to sell

“You can do it,” Home Depot says to Republican politicians, “and we can help.” According to a report in Bloomberg News, the orange home improvement

Attention Home Depot Shareholders! Home Depot is going to listen to you — next time. Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli had to hold down the

The next time Home Depot tries to get some local community to pay for road, water or sewer improvements, or to give them tax financing

The world’s largest home improvement chain store is getting behind the wheel to try and drive auto parts dealers off the road. According to Auto

Sprawl-Busters received word this week from one of our sources that Home Depot has made a major cutback in its store safety program. In past

Not to be undone by other discount retailers like Wal-Mart, Home Depot has announced at a meeting with investors recently that the company plans to

If you don’t already have a Home Depot where you live, hold the phone. The world’s largest home improvement store, the second largest retailer in

Home Depot helped nail the election victory for George W. Bush. The home improvement giant’s founder, Bernie Marcus, was one of the major contributors to

Home Depot over the past several years has hired the elderly and veterans to feed its expanding empire, as it displaces smaller competitors, while getting

Home Depot over the past several years has hired the elderly and veterans to feed its expanding empire, as it displaces smaller competitors, while getting

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Home Depot is lowering its planned store construction schedule for 2004. The home improvement giant produced new stores at

“Good things happen when Home Depot comes to town”. That’s what Home Depot likes to remind us. But ask the Better Business Bureau (BBB) in

According to a report filed by the Cox News Service this week, a federal judge in Atlanta has granted class-action status to a lawsuit charging

Here is an opinion editorial that ran in the February 21st edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution:” Vacant Wal-Marts leave a blot on communities.By Al

There’s some good news and bad news for sprawl-busters coming from the November 30th. stock analyst briefing with Home Depot and Lowe’s. The good news

Talk about slow election results, it took Home Depot more than two months to report the results of its May 30th. stockholder’s annual meeting. According

It’s official! Residents in Northwest Georgia are celebrating over the announcement yesterday that Home Depot will NOT be pursuing a store in the Howell Mill

The top brass at Home Depot on Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta will be watching this Friday night to see how bad the damage is

In the midst of gloomy financial news, along with the “retirement” of co-founder Arthur Blank, Home Depot announced this week that it was down-sizing its

Today’s Boston Globe carried a major news story about Sprawl-Busters legislation that would require stores like Home Depot and Wal-Mart to report incidents of injuries

The national media has finally twisted the wrench on Home Depot’s dangerous shopping environment, and the company is feeling the pressure. We have reported here

The natives are restless in Home Depot’s home town. A citzen’s group called the Northwest Community Alliance (NCA) has been fighting a plan to build

Accidents will happen, and when your business is storing thousands of gallons of hazardous materials, accidents can be serious. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency keeps

Last week Home Depot promised to phase out sales of products made from ‘old growth’ timber by the end of 2002. Old growth timber is

A lot of orange blood was spilled this week, as workers in 20 Home Depot Expo stores may lose their jobs. It looks like more

The internet: the last “free market” left in the world. Or is it? According to a Reuters news story out of Atlanta, Home Depot has

Most Home Depot stockholders have never heard of the Nuxalk Nation, but today, the hereditary chief of the British Columbia indian tribe, the Nuxalk Nation,

A Pittsburgh-based lawsuit filed a class action lawsuit yesterday charging that Home Depot, and its top executives, made false and misleading statements about its operations

Special Notice to All Home Depot Suppliers: The company is having an on-going problem identifying the content of its merchandise, and kindly requests that manufacturers

According to a Reuters news story, Home Depot Chairman Bernie Marcus has seen his net worth drop by 22%, or roughly $470 million, since July