Home Depot Grand Opening
Home Depot has been building a new store north of us, and today was their grand opening. I'm trying to ignore the fact that they managed to build an entire store before we could finish our upstairs renovation.
I was going to take a walk through the new store but when I drove by there was a line of more than 100 people outside! At first I wondered if there was some first-day discount, but then I noticed lots of kids so I figured one of the Chicago Cubs or Bears was signing autographs. I had a trunk full of groceries so I decided not to wait and headed home.
As we've mentioned previously, this marks the fifth big-box home improvement store located near us. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune the other day, the boom is related to Chicago's rank as the nation's top building-materials market: $10.2 billion in annual retail sales.
Either that or someone at Home Depot reads our site and saw how much we still have to spend over the next ten years to fix the house. ;-)
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Hey! I think I just figured out where you must be!!!
Now, if only they'd do the same on the West Side...I mean, I don't wanna sound like a complainer, but have you ever tried to get down Cicero Avenue around 26th Street at 10 AM on a Saturday morning? It's like open season, free puppies, and a fire sale all put together. And of course, THAT's where the Home Depot is.
Posted by: gladys | September 11, 2004 11:28 PM