{"id":10920,"date":"2018-08-28T16:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10920"},"modified":"2018-08-28T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:15:03","slug":"lowes-to-close-nearly-100-stores-by-years-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/lowes-to-close-nearly-100-stores-by-years-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowe\u2019s to Close Nearly 100 OSH Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lowe\u2019s Companies, Inc. <\/strong>will vacate 99 storefronts across California, Oregon and Florida after it announced the decision to close the<strong> Orchard Supply Hardware <\/strong>chain last week. Acquired out of bankruptcy in 2013 after it was wrecked by<strong> Sears, <\/strong>the smaller footprint OSH no longer has a place in Lowe\u2019s long-term plans.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"viz1535484611185\" class=\"tableauPlaceholder\" style=\"position: relative;\"><noscript><a href='#'><img alt='Dashboard 1 ' src='https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/static\/images\/Or\/OrchardSupplyLocations0818\/Dashboard1\/1_rss.png' style='border: none' \/><\/a><\/noscript><object class=\"tableauViz\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><param name=\"host_url\" value=\"https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F\" \/><param name=\"embed_code_version\" value=\"3\" \/><param name=\"site_root\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"OrchardSupplyLocations0818\/Dashboard1\" \/><param name=\"tabs\" value=\"no\" \/><param name=\"toolbar\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"static_image\" value=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/static\/images\/Or\/OrchardSupplyLocations0818\/Dashboard1\/1.png\" \/><param name=\"animate_transition\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_static_image\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_spinner\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_overlay\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_count\" value=\"yes\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'>                    var divElement = document.getElementById('viz1535484611185');                    var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName('object')[0];                    vizElement.style.width='700px';vizElement.style.height='327px';                    var scriptElement = document.createElement('script');                    scriptElement.src = 'https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/javascripts\/api\/viz_v1.js';                    vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement);                <\/script><\/p>\n<p>New CEO Marvin Ellison called the move a \u201cnecessary business decision\u201d as the company struggles to keep pace with industry leader <strong>Home Depot. <\/strong>Plans call for all 99 stores to be closed by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lowe\u2019s Companies, Inc. will vacate 99 storefronts across California, Oregon and Florida after it announced the decision to close the Orchard Supply Hardware chain last week. Acquired out of bankruptcy in 2013 after it was wrecked by Sears, the smaller footprint OSH no longer has a place in Lowe\u2019s long-term plans. New CEO Marvin Ellison&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/lowes-to-close-nearly-100-stores-by-years-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lowe\u2019s to Close Nearly 100 OSH Stores<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-real-estate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}