Since Home Depot forced the real local hardware stores and lumberyards out of business, I wonder where we are supposed to get stuff once HD closes. Not Lowe’s, that’s for sure—they don’t stock the stuff you really need, but just curtains and rugs and a few odds-and-ends that suburban homeowners need for some cosmetic fixes. If I need a hundred yards of Romex or a big serious masonry drill, they are sure not going to have it.
Once the Home Depot moved near me the great hardware/home store closed and the really nice lumber store actually stayed because they were so good but the county decided to widen the road next to them and took their entire parking lot. They then closed.
About two months after that all the good stuff at our new Home Depot (odd bolts, screws, solid oak moldings of many different varieties, etc...) disappeared and they just stocked the generic crap that I had no interest in.
Other than purchasing some decent commercial power tools from them I never go there because they have nothing I want.