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Home improvement retailers clean up in Charley’s wake
By Associated Press

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ATLANTA (AP) — Home improvement chains are benefiting from Hurricane Charley’s aftermath as residents begin the process of repairing their homes from the damage.
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The Home Depot Inc. has 33 stores in the area affected by the hurricane. Those stores have seen brisk sales of plywood, generators, building materials and lumber.
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“We have pictures of stores where people are standing in line out the door into the parking lot,” Carol Tome, Home Depot’s chief financial officer, said Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, Lowe’s Cos. Inc. reports its several dozen stores in the region are full of people buying shop vacuums, mops, brooms, roofing shingles, plastic sheeting and grills and propane tanks.


Neither chain would give sales figures or say exactly how much profit they expect to generate at stores in the path of the hurricane. Tome did say some Home Depot stores in the region have seen as much as a “fivefold increase in one day” in sales.
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Lowe’s spokeswoman Chris Ahearn said as many as 50 of the company’s 63 Florida stores closed Friday because they were in the hurricane’s path. All opened on Saturday morning, as did Home Depot’s stores.

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