I have stopped buying anything at our local Lowe's because of some of their practices. I don't know if they are local or company wide, but they lost me(and a lot of other local people ) as customers. 1. They reset the garden products. Instead of leaving the products on long aisles, they placed them on the end caps. This resulted in their discontinuing many products, several of which I had purchased on a regular basis. 2. They scaled down their offerings of the plants produced under their name, and chose to stock with Monrovia plants, which, in my opinion, are overpriced and overrated. 3. They do not mark down their plants until they are already clearly dead. Who wants to buy a dead plant? 4. I have tried several times to express my concerns to the store manager, and I was treated as if I was a crazy old lady, or was generally ignored. I do have other places to take my money. Our Wal Mart takes very good care of their plants, they get frequent shipments of plants for the appropriate growing season, and their better homes and gardens plants are high quality and reasonably priced. Our local Kroger's has an excellent selection of plants during the growing season; I have bought many nice plants there. As consumers we vote for our choices with our pocketbook, And my pocketbook sure doesn't vote for Lowe's!
