David Rosenthal
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64 recordings
4 series
first heard Aug 2022
last heard 14 Sep
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Yep.
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Almost 20 years in.
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And he goes out on top.
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And that's when some cracks start to emerge in the Home Depot Foundation, because there actually were a bunch of problems that this very rapid growth had masked.
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So first, that same year in 1997, the
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The company agreed to one of the largest corporate gender discrimination lawsuit settlements
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history up to that point.
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Bernie and Arthur dispute the claims in Built from Scratch in the memoir that they wrote.
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But even just the fact that the company ended up in this position shows that...
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Corporate management wasn't exactly tip-top, shall we say, in this era.
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And the lawsuit also kind of reflects the stores.
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I mean, Home Depot's up to this point were like a man's place, you know?
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It was...
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Guys buying hardware from other guys.
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Which Lowe's would gone to exploit cultivating women as customers.
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Absolutely.
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Which we're going to get to in just a second.
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And so, yeah, this whole dynamic ends up coming back to bite Home Depot pretty quickly.
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Yep.
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So, OK, that's problem number one.
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