Primarily because they chose terrible store locations!
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They chose the “Burger King” location model ,, BK just puts a store near any McDonalds that does good volume ... Lowes puts their stores across the street from HD.
They pick good locations ...
The Lowes near me is almost always empty ,, I’m surprised it isn’t on the list.
In the South Metro Denver area, they are NOT near H.D.