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The concerns cited by Home Depot refer to single purchases and contracts, not total yearly purchases. Loew's understands this; that's why they have no problem selling to the government. The Home Depot policy may be discriminatory, since they are refusing to sell to individuals based on their affiliation to the government. Military commanders are required by law to place all establishments that discriminate against their personnel off-limits. Maybe after the loss of a few dollars Home Depot will get the point. I'm going to make an educated guess based on more than 20 years of military service that many members of the military will voluntarily boycott the company when they learn of this policy. We support our own.

The Home Depot policy may be discriminatory, since they are refusing to sell to individuals based on their affiliation to the government.
If you read the article again, you will notice that HD's ban does not affect sales to any individuals, period. It prohibits sales to the federal government of items to be used by the federal government. That's not discrimination against any individual.

Military commanders are required by law to place all establishments that discriminate against their personnel off-limits.
Again, not one of us has been discriminated against, and we'll continue to shop at whichever stores best serve our needs. For me, that's Home Depot. As real men know, Lowe's is for ladies.

I'm going to... guess based on more than 20 years of military service that many members of the military will voluntarily boycott the company when they learn of this policy.
Those of us with more than 20 years of military service know who onerous and threatening it is to deal with federal bureaucracy. When more of us learn of Home Depot's common-sense new policy, more of us will shop at Home Depot.

We support our own.
"Our own" does not include chicken-crap bureaucrats who force private enterprise to run its businesses into the ground. This Marine was at Home Depot yesterday, and will be back again this week -- happier than ever!

The Home Depot policy may be discriminatory, since they are refusing to sell to individuals based on their affiliation to the government.

On discrimination laws:

Sheesh, we can't even trust our "employees" -- government officials -- to let them into our homes and businesses without a search warrant if we don't want to let them in. But somehow a business is forced to trust a total stranger with an open door policy. A person/business owner can refuse to allow a government agent access to his property but not a total stranger! And get this, it is the government that can't be trusted without a search warrant that is telling property owners that they must trust total strangers.

Discrimination laws are unjust.

Military commanders are required by law to place all establishments that discriminate against their personnel off-limits.

Refusing to accept govt issued credit cards isn't discrimination against personnel. I'm absolutely sure it that uniformed member of our military establishment used a "civilian" credit card, it would be honored no problemos.

"We support our own"

and we welcome all government employees to continue to 'support your own'.

But please explain then why you need half of my income to pay for your income so you can 'support your own'. Please feel as free as you need to be to support your own, but do it on your own dime.

My husband and I used to run a software company (software created by my husband to be used in schools for certain subjects). When we were contacted by a school run by the feds for overseas military employees' children, we were asked to fill out reams of forms for a simple purchase of a piece of software that we were selling for $49.95. It was ludicrous that I, as a small business owner, would have been required to fill out this sheath of papers for the Feds to buy this software. We didn't make the sale.

I'm with Hank Rearden on this one.

Don't count on it sir. A lot of us in the military understand the reality of Big Brother and the falicy of PC-ness. I suspect many of my brethren will view an "Off Limits" decree as a challenge to their personal freedom and, in the spirit of righteous rebellion that sparked this great nation, will shop the sh#$ out of Home Depot. Here's one old sarge that'll buy my next flag there.