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Home Depot Dealing with Data Breach Lawsuits

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The Home Depot is facing 44 lawsuits at minimum after payment card information was stolen from customers who shopped at the home improvement company’s stores earlier this year, according to Fortune.com. The data breach cost Home Depot $43 million in the third quarter of fiscal …

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Lowe’s Ordered to Pay Nearly $5 Million for Unpaid Overtime

A Florida judge has ordered Lowe’s Home Centers Inc. to pay $4.6 million to human resources employees and their attorneys in a nationwide class-action lawsuit. The Lowe’s human resources employees had sued the home improvement retailer in 2012, claiming that Lowe’s …

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Hardware Retailers Refuse to Open on Thanksgiving

Hardware retailers were among store chains making a point to keep their businesses closed on Thanksgiving this year. Home Depot and Ace Hardware both announced via social media that their stores would be closed on the holiday. Home Depot asked its …

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Post-Recession Remodeling Growth

The number of housing starts is steadily increasing and home improvement remodeling is on the rise, according to an article from the Wall Street Journal. With these two factors slowly improving, the economy is making strides toward pre-recession levels. The Bureau …

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Single-Family Home Size Decreasing

As the housing market continues to recover, the size of newly built single-family homes is slightly decreasing. Single-family home sizes have been on the rise since the end of the recession, and now they are tapering off for the second …

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Language of Leadership: Constructive Versus Destructive

Jeremy Kinsley was a guest on Entrepreneur’s Insight radio show talks about how inspired leaders produce results. While many people are given the title of leader, a lot of them don’t elicit results because they don’t communicate in a way that inspires action …

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Home Depot Varies Online Prices Depending on the Customer

Researchers argue in a recent study that many retailers, including Home Depot, use histories of online shoppers’ activity not only to customize movie recommendations or product suggestions on websites, but also to set individual prices for items. Retailers use data …

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Great Lakes Ace Hardware Names Industry Veteran as COO

Great Lakes Ace Hardware named a hardware industry veteran as its new chief operating officer, according to the Farmington Voice. Jason Haley has worked for Ace Hardware for 13 years, and worked in the industry for 26 years, the article said. In …

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