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Another Lowe's?

Submitted by Rick on Fri, 09/16/2005 - 11:39pm.

Do we really need a third Lowe's in the area? The Olympian:

The home improvement chain has a store on Martin Way and submitted plans for a 166,000-square-foot store at College Street and Yelm Highway in Lacey. A west-side Olympia site would be its third in the county.

No to Lowes.

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sat, 09/17/2005 - 2:18am.

No to Lowes.

Used to be we had too few hom

Submitted by hrstruggle on Tue, 09/20/2005 - 4:38am.

Used to be we had too few home improvement stores. Now there are too many . . . we definitely don't need ANOTHER Lowe's . . .

How do you know there isn't t

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Sun, 09/25/2005 - 12:38pm.

How do you know there isn't the need for another home improvement store? I would imagine Lowe's has done at least a basic market analysis and determined another location would be financially viable. That would indicate to me that there is the need for a store.

You're assuming that what Low

Submitted by Rick on Sun, 09/25/2005 - 1:00pm.

You're assuming that what Lowes needs is the same as what the community needs. I'd argue that they are not the same.

If people are shopping there,

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Sun, 09/25/2005 - 8:52pm.

If people are shopping there, wouldn't that indicate a community need? No?

If I built a McDonalds across

Submitted by Rick on Sun, 09/25/2005 - 9:09pm.

If I built a McDonalds across the street from your house, and your teenage children began eating there (refusing to eat anywhere else), would that be filling a need? Who benefits from a new Lowes? Lowes does. Not necessarily the community.

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