Hearthlist Digest #326 - Thursday, July 29, 1999
 
A News Tidbit...
  by "Craig Issod" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: A News Tidbit...
From: Craig Issod <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:03:33 -0500
 
Here's an interesting paragraph on Home Depots "pull" with manufacturers...
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Home Depot, the largest U.S. retailer of home-improvement goods, asked its
suppliers not to sell their products directly to consumers over the
Internet, or risk having their products dropped from Home Depot shelves.
 
Home Depot, in a letter to more than 1,000 vendors including Black &
Decker, Scotts, and General Electric, said it may hesitate to do business
with suppliers that also market their products online because they would
then become competitors. Home Depot said it would prefer to partner with
them on selling via the Internet, said company spokeswoman Carol Schumacher.
 
Manufacturers are treading carefully to find ways to get a piece of the
lucrative and fast-growing Internet market without angering the companies
that sell their products.