Household items bigger at Lincoln Park Home Depot in latest new format for firm
The first thing a shopper notices upon entering Home Depot Inc.'s prototype store in Lincoln Park is what's missing--riding lawnmowers, rolls of wall-to-wall carpeting and slabs of dry wall stacked to the ceiling.
The glass-enclosed store operated by the world's biggest home- improvement chain devotes shelves near the entrance to household goods such as Pledge furniture polish, Downy fabric softener and Bounty paper towels. At 80,000 square feet, the two-level store is a third smaller than most Home Depots.
The urban store, on Halsted south of Diversey, is the latest in CEO Robert Nardelli's search for new formats, ranging from garden- product to home-decor outlets, to try to boost revenue ...
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