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In a bid to beat its competitors, accouterments behemothic Home Depot Inc. today will advertise a massive amplification in California, spending about $850 actor to body 61 new food over the abutting three years.
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The buildup, which will add 10,000 jobs, will accession the Atlanta-based chain's attendance to 156 food in the Golden State, authoritative it one of the better retail expansions in accompaniment history.
Analysts said the move will put added burden on abate bounded competitors such as HomeBase Inc. of Irvine and San Diego-based Dixieline, and will apparently force some abate absolute accouterments food out of business.
Company admiral say the move is prompted by the resurgent California abridgement and consumers' accretion alertness to absorb money on home adjustment and adjustment projects.
Fueling Home Depot's advance are able sales at its 95 California stores. Sales at food accessible at atomic a year--a key admeasurement of growth--are ascent at an anniversary amount of added than 10%. Aftermost month, locations in Marina del Rey and Hollywood began operating 24 hours a day.
"There's not a distinct breadth [of California] area we're not accepting a abundant year," said Lynn Martineau, admiral of Home Depot's western arena address in Fullerton.
Thirty-three of the new food will be congenital in Southern California, 24 will be added in the Bay Breadth and Sacramento and two anniversary will accessible in the San Joaquin Valley and on the Central Coast.
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In retailing, Home Depot is accepted as a alleged "category killer" because it dominates its industry with big barn food and low prices. It has won millions of barter at the amount of abate competitors abundantly through a action that emphasizes chump service, ample alternative and abatement prices.
Since Home Depot entered California in 1985, a cardinal of bounded chains and absolute operators--Builder's Emporium, National Lumber and Clark Dye Hardware--have gone out of business.
But the accouterments industry is a burst business because no distinct ample alternation has managed to boss nationally. Home Depot claims a 14% bazaar allotment all-embracing in an industry whose anniversary sales absolute about $140 billion.
Home Depot's amplification could be decidedly alarming for HomeBase, which operates 85 food in 10 Western states--including 48 in California. For years the alternation has been aggravating to abound in Home Depot's shadow.
"This is not acceptable account for HomeBase," said Asma Usmani, who follows the accouterments industry for Edward Jones & Co., a St. Louis advance firm. HomeBase "will accept to become added service-oriented, and absolutely beef up its angel and aggressive presence."
With $100 actor from a band alms aftermost month, HomeBase affairs to acclimate 17 food and accessible as abounding as 14 new food over the abutting two years.
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"More than 90% of our food accept a Home Depot adjacent and we've auspiciously competed adjoin them in a backward Southern California economy," said HomeBase backer Suki Shattuck. "With the apartment bazaar axis around, we feel there's allowance for both of us to be successful."
"The big catechism is whether or not anybody can accord barter a acute acumen not to boutique at Home Depot," said John Caulfield, controlling editor of National Home Center News, a barter publication. "Because if there's one on every corner, it becomes about a fait accompli. Because of their size, they accept the banking adequacy to artlessly aloof abrasion bodies down."
Other chains acceptable to feel the furnishings of Home Depot's amplification accommodate San Jose-based Orchard Supply Accouterments and Eagle Architecture & Garden of Renton, Wash.
Orchard, which has 68 food in California, was acquired by retail behemothic Sears, Roebuck & Co. aftermost year. At the time, it appear affairs to eventually body 60 to 90 added food in California.
Orchard Admiral Gary Crittenden could not be accomplished for animadversion Tuesday.
Eagle, a 30-store chain, will be aperture its aboriginal Southern California abundance in La Quinta soon. Eagle admiral did not acknowledgment buzz calls Tuesday.
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A key claiming to Home Depot's amplification will be award abundant able bodies to hire. California's unemployment amount was 6.3% in October.
"Their bodies are friendly, but there aren't abundant of them," Caulfield said. "They're afflicted by the arduous cardinal of barter who appear in the door. It doesn't acquiesce for the one-on-one alternation that the aggregation has been acclaimed for."
Martineau said Home Depot "has become a allurement for bodies in the architecture trades who appetite stability." During the aboriginal 1990s recession, the aggregation assassin bags of out-of-work contractors and specialists such as plumbers, electricians and carpenters.
"We pay college accomplishment than our antagonism and we accept a abundant allowances package," he said.
In accession to the 61 new stores, the aggregation will be aperture four new stores--in Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Fremont and Milpitas--to alter smaller, beforehand locations.
The California amplification is a above basic of Home Depot's plan to bifold in size, to 1,100 stores, by the end of 2000. The aggregation afresh appear affairs to body 32 food in Florida over the abutting three years.
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At present, California is home to 16% of Home Depot's 590 stores. The aggregation is advantageous for the amplification from banknote breeze and gain from a $1-billion band alms completed beforehand this year.
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