Home Depot is a red company

[SHRED]

Is Lowe's a blue or more blue-er company?

[Nite Owl]

1. Yes

I'm sure that Lowe's is blue or at least majority blue. Nice stuff too.

[bobweaver]

3. Lowe's is certainly a lot safer - they have nets on those highest shelves.

[jmowreader]

13. Home Depot also has the nets

I occasionally walk Lowe's and their door aisle scares the shit out of me.

There are two ways to display a door--flat-faced and bookcased. Flatfacing a door lets you see the doorslab; bookcasing it lets you see the side of the doorframe. All of the local Lowe's stores flat-face the doors in the overhead--and flat-facing is the leading contributor to children getting squashed by falling doors. You're at least supposed to use toebeams in this case, but they don't; it would be essentially impossible to get a big door like a French door out of the overhead with a toebeam installed.

The other thing they do that worries me greatly involves lift equipment. I've lately come to the conclusion that when they test you for your forklift license at Lowe's, they put you on the machine, have you start driving the store's racetrack all by yourself, and make you keep going until you either run someone over or take out a rack. Anyway, I was walking down their lumber aisle just trying to figure out how in hell anyone finds anything in that place when some asshat just roared past me on his shiny new forklift. No spotters. No warning customers. Gas foot flat on the floor. SOB whipped around and almost turned the machine over. Let's play "how many OSHA violations can you find on this operation?".

[jmowreader]

10. Lowe's is actually redder than Home Depot

Opensecrets.org is hard to extract data from, but all the Lowe's hits I could find over there were donations to Republicans.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Home Depot's founder was profiled in Guideposts Christian Magazine

I got the sense that he was a RW Christian rahter than left-leaning.

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[Angry Girl]

4. Mostly BLUE it appears

Thanks to sherilocks, who posted in the thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=255x9
as follows:

Stats for Lowe's-More to Dems

Republicans $8,464 (48.37%)
Democrats $9,036 (51.63%)
Others $0 (0.00%)
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Total $17,500

Resource:
http://www.followyourmoney.com/cgi-bin/FYM.cgi?p=find_company&company_id=6514


Also you can find this info at http://www.goodmoney.com/wpubco.htm:

Lowe's Companies This operater of building supply centers has 2 women on the 12-member Board (one of whom is African-American), has been named one of the 100 best companies to work for, and has an employee stock ownership retirement plan. There is a company social profile at Citizen Funds' web site.

[noamnety]

5. mostly apolitical

Lowe's was awarded the 2001 Corporation of the Year by the NAACP (National Association For The Advancement of Colored People). The company gave $1 million contribution to help rebuild the oldest township in America founded by freed slaves, Princeville, North Carolina.

But all the same, a local business or decidedly blue company like ACE or True-Value might be a better choice if they offer what you need.

Lowes Foods, on the other hand, is all red.

[inslee08]

6. It's a gender thing

To us, Home Depot appears to be a red company because it's target market is men (I think this is pretty obvious), and of course men lean slightly to the right.

Lowe's tends to target women, at least somewhat.

Whether or not this perception is true, it's hard to say.

[joefree1]

7. Good place to find more info on "red" and "blue" companys

http://www.buyblue.org

[BigMindTinyHead]

9. buyblue.org needs a reality check

See: http://www.buyblue.org/current_campaign.php

" I will let my elected representatives know that corporate money is not welcome in politics."

Democrats will not welcome corporate cash when either hell freezes over or all their opposition does same. Other than that quick showstopper the rest looks not too bad.

[BigMindTinyHead]

8. Warning for the colorphobes and the civil debate

Red is gray and blue is true
north and south no longer divide
what the east and the west can't define
one last time we have upon the west
a shade of purple left to make the best

Sitting on the fence is a well worn path
And only the zero gets a well earned pass

Once upon a time in the west.

[Liberal In Texas]

11. Over the last 3 years I've spent THOUSANDS at HD

Including a very expensive shed.
No more.
I can get anything I need at Lowe's.

[AlCzervik]

12. I worked for HD for 7 years in 3 different states

it got a lot redder when thye brought that asshole Bob Nardelli in, he's ruined imo.