I am just a consumer, but also a spouse of a Lowe's employee.....Like many other Lowe's employee familys, we only shop at Lowe's, we quit shopping at Big Orange. I always felt that the two corporations, while similar, market to a different niche, and I already mostly shopped at Lowe's anyway. After the big "reorganization" in the winter, I am aware that it has created an enormous uproar at "our" store, just as it likely did at every location. All of the DM's who applied and didn't get selected were totally sh*t on, with no incentive to be a better or even be a "good" employee - after all, they were told, your getting a demotion, AND you have a year to "find" a position, otherwise your termed. For them the clock is ticking. But I also have an additional view of the overall picture, because I personally am unemployed, unable to find a job, and believe the overall economy is not that great, in spite of the stock market setting new records. We are seeing continuation of the rich getting richer, and the poor and middle class (which is really just a different way of saying the "upper poor class") getting poorer. A large part of lost sales for Lowe's is the shifting of prosperity to the rich, and likely is affecting a lot of businesses. Just look at all the Sears, Macys, Kohls, JC Penneys and others who are closing because people are simply just not spending money unless absolutely necessary. Just reading about your CEO and his multi-million dollar bonus chaps my a$$. That is a HUGE part of the problem, not only with Lowe's, but lots of other stores whose management and stockholders are further wedging the nation into the rich and the poor. For the other person who mentioned organized labor making moves, I personally think that is a great idea, and within the next 20 years will eventually make a comeback, for those willing to step up to the plate and embrace it like American workers did in the 1930's. Good luck to all my Lowe's family of employees.