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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Lowe's back then, despite being the biggest player in the hardware sector, was not the Lowe's that you think of today.
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It had evolved out of the general store concept.
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It was all these small store footprints that we're talking about, like a fifth or less of the size of what you know as Lowe's today.
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They're mostly in strip malls.
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And the whole company, Lowe's, is only doing about $150 million in annual revenue total.
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Yep.
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So Bernie and Arthur...
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When they come into Handy Dan and this whole hardware sector, this is like bringing a bazooka to a knife fight.
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These guys are much more competitive, much more sophisticated than the whole rest of the industry.
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These guys are sharp operators.
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They've done concessions.
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They've done discounting.
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They've done pharmacy.
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Yep.
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So despite this, like, super tough overall retail macro...
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Bernie and Arthur turn around Handy Dan and make it the best operator in the industry.
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But that still doesn't save Dalen, the parent company, because they're so weighed down by their other divisions that they file for bankruptcy in 1975.
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And they bring in a noted turnaround artist as the CEO to turn it around.
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We'll come back to that in a minute.
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For the moment, though, let's flash back over to the East Coast to a completely different character.
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