David Rosenthal
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40,888 appearances
64 recordings
4 series
first heard Aug 2022
last heard 14 Sep
David Rosenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But this is bad for America, the economy, etc.
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This is really bad for suburban retail.
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Shopping just dries up.
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And Dalen starts totally sucking wind.
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Except...
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Right.
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thanks to Bernie and Arthur, because when they take over, as you said, they're not coming from the hardware business.
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These guys are seasoned retailers from other parts of the retail sector.
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Hardware home improvement as a concept wasn't really a term yet.
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Right.
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The hardware store landscape at the time was this hatchwork of clubby, regional, not very sophisticated and not very good businesses.
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Yeah.
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And so like if you're a consumer, if you're a suburban homeowner and you've got a project that you want to work on yourself over the weekends...
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Totally.
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I mean, it's Home Depot that unlocks that category because before Home Depot, you couldn't trust that you could get all the stuff you needed because...
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to accomplish your project, to build a deck or retail your bathroom or whatever you wanted to do around your house.
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You would walk into these little hardware stores and good luck, you know.
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So the biggest operator in the industry at the time was a company out of North Carolina called Lowe's.
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You might have heard of it.
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Yes.
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