FloorRadio Archives Presentation – Trivers and the Growing Threat of the Big Boxes
August 21, 2005—Jon Trivers, Marketing Wit and Wisdom, in a conversation that was first broadcast in April, 2005, discusses shifts in the retail sector, the declining number of floor covering retailers, Home Depot’s and Lowe’s dramatic market share growth and the role of installation in that growth. Trivers also talks about Ace Hardware’s growth plans in combating the two big box players, of adding 1,100 stores over the next 10 years and how this plan could prove a successful avenue for floor covering retailers, and the looming threat Home Depot and Lowe’s have for urban flooring retailers.