The Home Depot has opened the first of what will be four test stores planned for New Jersey before the year 2000, a "recreated" hardware store operating as Villager's Hardware. Villager's focuses on small fix-up and maintenance projects rather than major home improvements.
The Home Depot has opened the first of what will be four test stores planned for New Jersey before the year 2000, a "recreated" hardware store operating as Villager's Hardware. With about 40,000 sq. ft. of selling space and an outdoor garden center, Villager's focuses on small fix-up and maintenance projects rather than major home improvements.
More than half the items carried in a Villager's Hardware are different from what is available at a Home Depot. As opposed to the 40,000 to 50,000 different kinds of building materials, home improvement supplies and lawn and garden products carried in a Home Depot store, Villager's Hardware stocks about 37,000 items in 10 departments: hardware, plumbing, paint, electrical, seasonal/lawn and garden, lighting/lamps, housewares and gifts, storage and ready-to-assemble furniture, and decorative bath, window and wall fashions. Home Depot items such as kitchens, bath fixtures, floor covering, lumber, and doors and windows are not carried.