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jrose
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posted 15 October 2007 09:20 AM      Profile for jrose     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
"Her Depot": new Home Depot aims to please the ladies

yuck!


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Michelle
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posted 15 October 2007 09:39 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Grody.
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Rebecca West
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posted 15 October 2007 09:48 AM      Profile for Rebecca West     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh barf!
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The Wizard of Socialism
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posted 15 October 2007 10:00 AM      Profile for The Wizard of Socialism   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
"Grody"?? I always KNEW Michelle was a Val back in the day! Awesome. Totally awesome.
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Michelle
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posted 15 October 2007 10:27 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Gag me!
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oldgoat
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posted 15 October 2007 12:58 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So like they sell hammers with instruction manuals and stuff, right? *ducks and runs*
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farnival
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posted 15 October 2007 01:29 PM      Profile for farnival     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
my "Websense" filter at work has blocked the link for "adult content.
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Le Téléspectateur
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posted 15 October 2007 02:15 PM      Profile for Le Téléspectateur     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It does use the word "vagina" and that's pretty vulgar if you're a web-bot-censor or a conservative.
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M.Gregus
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posted 16 October 2007 06:26 AM      Profile for M.Gregus     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
In addition to a shopping space that's "clean and neat" the way ladies like it, has mood lighting, and is stocked with flower-printed storage bins, I totally expect the sale of products like this:

Tool set for women

After all, studies say that women like pink!

[ 16 October 2007: Message edited by: M.Gregus ]


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BitWhys
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posted 16 October 2007 07:00 AM      Profile for BitWhys     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
listen

if it keeps my wife from redecorating from out of WalMart I'm all for it.


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Pride for Red Dolores
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posted 16 October 2007 08:49 AM      Profile for Pride for Red Dolores     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
bitwhy's and company this is the feminist forum, can we please keep that type of language out of here ?
As for the article, the only thing I could find on their american corporate website is this :web page and this store, the first which I think is rather nifty becasue it's empowering through education (and getting more clients of course.

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BitWhys
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posted 16 October 2007 08:58 AM      Profile for BitWhys     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Pride for Red Dolores:
bitwhy's and company this is the feminist forum, can we please keep that type of language out of here ?...

that was no lady

that was my wife


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bigcitygal
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posted 16 October 2007 09:41 AM      Profile for bigcitygal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
BitWhys you're being a sexist troll. Stop.
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BitWhys
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posted 16 October 2007 09:58 AM      Profile for BitWhys     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by bigcitygal:
BitWhys you're being a sexist troll. Stop.

what's the problem here?

my wife decorates out of WalMart and I've got the three foot tall plaster of paris lighthouse in my living room to prove it.


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Makwa
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posted 16 October 2007 10:04 AM      Profile for Makwa   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That the feminism forum should be hijacked for male yuks once again does not surprise me. However, this marketing idea does have a highly gendered component. When I was a young'un you went to the "lumber yard" at your peril, where you would have to confront an irritated clerk who wondered why you didn't know a 2'x4' from a 4'x4' and didn't know the difference between different grades of lumber and didn't have the time or interest to tell you before they scribbled out an unreadable work order. Then you had to drive around the back, where a cutter would sneer at your Mazda wankel rotary engine car and cut your pieces and thrown them at upi while he spitted out sawdust at your feet while you tried to shove them somehow between the badly tilting seats and the rear compartment (with the plastic 'third door' tilting wildly.

The big box department stores offered you the luxury of taking the time to actually look at the wood you thought you wanted to buy before selling it to you at widly inflated prices, and offered at least the mirage of some reasonably friendly customer help.

However, this took off to move to other special services like self service bathroom and kitchen renovation etc. which opened up the vista of many shoppers who were not merely uninformed men who wanted to play at being a doityourselfer.

Its merely the logical progression of this marketing ploy. It will fail, as they realize that female shoppers, not unlike the dynamics of the stereotypical gender roles of asking for directions, have already taken the reins and learned enough to return to the surly play with the invoice servers.


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Caissa
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posted 16 October 2007 10:12 AM      Profile for Caissa     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I've never stepped inside Home Depot and rarely inside a hardware store. That's my wife's area of expertise "inherited" from her father. We just had Home Depot retile our shower and Ms. C. managed it from start to finish.
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Michelle
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posted 16 October 2007 10:18 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yeah, my mom's a total do-it-yourselfer too, although she's not the type to redecorate for the sake of redecorating all the time - she just does it when it really needs doing, and she's darn good at it.

I sent her the link to this by e-mail and she completely scoffed at it. She says there are already tons of decorating stores out there.


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BitWhys
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posted 16 October 2007 01:12 PM      Profile for BitWhys     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So is somebody going to tell me what I said that was so terrible?
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The Wizard of Socialism
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posted 16 October 2007 02:28 PM      Profile for The Wizard of Socialism   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think it's not so much what you said, but the 1950s way in which you said it. But hey, what do I know? If I had my way, it'd still be 1977. I'd have flare leg trousers, clogs, a big fro, gold chains and my wide lapels would be open so everyone could dig on my chest hair. Funky.
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BitWhys
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posted 16 October 2007 09:27 PM      Profile for BitWhys     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
bitter reality.

Like when I got the Afro to go with the polyester print shirt. I looked like me mom. I prefer to think I was turned onto punk early.

Unlike what I would have done if I'd noticed the subforum this thing is in because I'll never know for sure.

although I have my suspicions.

and actually, the lighthouse isn't all that cheesy anyways.


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martin dufresne
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posted 16 October 2007 11:23 PM      Profile for martin dufresne   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
In Quebec, a local franchise hardware chain trumped their big name competitors by acknowledging that both women and men were into home improvements. They not only tilted their advertising away from the He-Man-With-Hammer model, but hired a 50% female sales staff, something unheard of before in Hardwareland. Yeah, RoNa!
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