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And already the association of Chelsea are actuality afflicted with cocooning options in the neighborhood, which, according to Dana Telsey, a retail analyst for Bear Stearns, is fast acceptable "a breadth for category-killer retailing." She cited the adjacent attendance of such bartering giants as Old Navy; Staples; Bed, Bath and Beyond; Barnes & Noble; Best Buy and others in the Flatiron commune that was already accepted as the Ladies' Mile.
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This is alarming to some baby bounded merchants. "I don't apperceive why they accustomed them to appear into the city," said Isaac Mor, the owner, for 11 years, of Multi-Security Locksmith at 10 West 23rd Street, abreast the Home Depot. "This will affect the accomplished neighborhood. A lot of food about actuality will go out of business."
As in Mr. Mor's store, Home Depot will advertise locks and added aegis devices, and accommodate accession service; it will additionally action barter 800-number admission to a 24-hour locksmith. Mr. Mor accuse $1.50 to archetype a basal abode key. Home Depot will allegation $1.29.
Other competitors, however, say they are unworried. Dave Glassman, administrator of business for the Restoration Accouterments chain, which has a 14,000-square-foot abundance a block from the Home Depot, said the new Home Depot "will accord us added basal traffic, and access the acceptability of the absolute adjacency as a retail commune featuring things for the home."
"We don't see Home Depot as a aggressive threat," he added.
Mr. Glassman may not be absolutely so sanguine back he walks his competitor's new abundance and studies the arrangement of 1,200 altered styles of chiffonier hardware, added than at any added Home Depot, alignment from 69-cent aperture pulls to high-end accessories for $61.79 and more. The store's affluence of appurtenances reflects the affairs ability of the world's better home-improvement retailer, which has 1,802 stores.
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"It is not our ambition to aching added businesses," Mr. Taylor said. "We see our advancing in as a acknowledgment to customers, who accept been allurement us to appear actuality for a continued time."
Befitting its breadth in a battleground district, the abundance announces itself not with all-over orangeness, but with orange banners. The aisles are advanced for Manhattan: the boilerplate amplitude is six feet. The abundance will action 20,000 altered articles in stock, and appropriate acclimation will accession the cardinal accessible to 100,000.
Even a abrupt arbitrary of the abundance account seems improbably over the top. The floor-covering cosmos to the appropriate of the aisle will, as in some of the company's added stores, action 2,000 kinds of carpets, hardwoods, laminates and bowl tile, but the alternative of breadth rugs costing from $200 to $8,000, abounding of them one of a kind, takes Home Depot into new retail terrain. The beam administration will action clue lighting and 1,000 altered fixtures, 500 of them in stock. There is additionally an burghal army of stackable washer-dryers, bunched abuse and countertops.
Customers who coast bottomward the escalators to the basal of the atrium can watch their arcade carts transported abutting to them on a Vermaport barrow escalator. Downstairs will be 3,200 samples of acrylic and nine paint-mixing stations, the best in any Home Depot. A tool-rental account will action aggregate from ability accoutrement to attic sanders and carpeting shampooers.
It will be the aboriginal Home Depot to be dotted with four "know-how kiosks" -- flat-panel blow screens that affectation account and that can book out artefact lists and how-to instructions for customers. The abundance will additionally action alleged "space-solution designers." They are salesclerks who can adapt the store's articles for bound burghal spaces. And the new store's street-floor home-clinic breadth will administrate three urban-ish tutorials a day -- added sessions than in any added of its stores.
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Shoppers abyssal this close burghal anchorage will aberrate in arrogant attractive for the accepted barge administration with its Himalaya of boards abrading the ceiling. However, barter will be able to stop by at a contractor-services board adjacent to adjustment drywall, insulation and plywood capsule to be delivered.
Just afore the exit, a aggregation of expediters will accomplish a triage appraisal on abandonment barter at the checkout lanes, sending best shoppers and their carts to nine high-tech annals stations that are able with wireless browse guns.
Other barter will be directed to a additional advantage -- self-checkout lanes -- area they can browse their items themselves and bash their own acclaim or debit cards. A third option: barter can cycle their carts to one of bristles commitment checkout stations. Commitment will be promised in a appointed three-hour window on the aforementioned day or the abutting day.
And so, ablaze orange vans and box trucks may become all-over in Manhattan.
Oh, about the doorman: the abstraction is to advice barter amount taxicabs or cars. And that babysitter will action assistance, advice about articles and abundance map-directories in English, Spanish and Mandarin.
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The abundance inhabits the above home of Hasbro, already a warren of offices and toy showrooms adulatory G.I. Joe and Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. Home Depot, which had sales in budgetary 2003 of $64.8 billion, beneath to acknowledge its accumulation projections for the store. Executives are assured added than a actor barter a year there.
Mr. Nardelli, the arch executive, said that admitting the big-ticket Manhattan location, its articles will be priced analogously to those in the company's added food in the boroughs and Secaucus, N.J.
But Ms. Telsey, the analyst, warned that admitting the agnate pricing, its burghal blueprint could not administer to Home Depot's Chelsea toehold. "Manhattan is a bit of a altered animal," she said. "Costs of control and amount are greater, and the challenges of the Manhattan mural accommodate traffic, the times that bodies shop, accepting it all into the abundance and accepting it all out to the customers."
The company's business plan has advancing such issues, Mr. Taylor said. Supplies will be alien in every night back cartage is light. And back there is bound accumulator amplitude on site, the key to the stocking operation is a new alliance barn in Edison, N.J. There, anxiously called alloyed cargos will be loaded in carts that are prelabeled so that back they ability the Manhattan abundance they can be bound formed to altered areas.
But isn't the aggression of Manhattan a gamble? "They wouldn't appear to New York if their added burghal locations hadn't been accomplishing well," Ms. Telsey said of Home Depot's food in city Detroit, city Seattle and the Lincoln Park adjacency of Chicago.
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Above all, Mr. Taylor insisted, "although we accept added higher-end things, and added altered things, it is still a Home Depot." And back a additional abundance is to accessible in November or December at 59th Street and Third Avenue, aggression orange has aloof begun.
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