Talk:Lowe's

Company Name

Is the company name "Lowe's Companies, Inc" or "Lowe's Home Centers, Inc"??? I've seen both written in various places. Is one a parent company of the other? I just don't know. Here's where "Home Centers" is found: BBB= Court Case= Business Week=. You can easily google for more. --Triadian (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Ok, so Lowe's Home Centers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lowe's Companies that runs the chain of Lowe's Stores. Other companies like LF are also a part of the Lowe's Companies Inc holding company. --Triadian (talk) 20:08, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Suggest changing the name of this page to "Lowe´s (U.S. hardware store)", to avoid confusion with the Australian clothing retailer. The Australian clothing retailer brands its stores as "Lowes", not "Lowes Menswear" and they also sell clothing for women. SRamzy (talk) 04:56, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Chinese and Vietnamese

This article needs versions in Chinese and Vietnamese:

• Chinese page: http://www.lowescreativeideas.com/chinese/
• Vietnamese page: http://www.lowescreativeideas.com/vietnamese/

WhisperToMe (talk) 01:07, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

License to Link

According to the Version A Link Agreement a site must obtain permission before linking to Lowes' website. Should the links to Lowes on Wikipedia be removed? --- Teoryn 04:03, 6 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teoryn (talk • contribs)

Well, I'm not really sure that's exactly what it means. Probably will have to have someone with more legal experience look it over, but it looks like a standard agreement for people who want to sell Lowe's stuff online or franchise something. Where did you find that? Is there a page that the pdf is linked from? Maybe that page explains more. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 15:43, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

I think we should leave the links to lowes.com in the article unless some Wikimedia foundation attorney says they should be removed. There is also a link in the InfoBox. I've never heard of a a legal mechanism whereby a web site owner can legally prevent other web sites from linking to their site. --Noleander (talk) 16:03, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

User Henrik posted this info on my talk page:

It's apparently their position that you need to sign this two page form in order to post a link to their site: https://images.lowes.com/animate/HypertextLinkAgreement_A.pdf (Further details: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/a-license-to-link-lowes-has-one.ars) henrik•talk 16:50, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

My opinion is that corporations cannot dictate what content is permissible in WP articles. Just as we use company logos, there is no prohibition against using links to company web sites. Companies routinely try to throw up smoke screens and legal threats to stop various practices, but unless the Wikimedia attorneys say that we need to obey Lowes, I think the links can be kept. Any editor that thinks the links should be removed should first post a query to Wikimedia foundation asking for legal guidance. --Noleander (talk) 17:51, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

corprate affares

why is the corprate affairs section blank? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.10.17.170 (talk) 16:58, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

I see what you are saying. It really isn't empty, it's just that an anonymous IP previously deleted some info and changed the section heading nestings. Correcting that now. Restoring some of the previously deleted material. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 18:28, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Unions

This is an anti-union training movie from lowe's. I think their anti-union stance should be mentioned in the article and this video be referenced. http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8559953/. I guess the link doesn't cut it, but hopefully another source can be found. Scrdcow (talk) 00:03, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Additions to the section on Canada

After reading the section on Canada, I felt that a certain addition on expansion should be included. Since Target decided to depart Canada, Lowes bought several of their units for transformation into new Lowes operations. The details of this expansion are included in the following link Lowes Canada Expanding.

Changes to Advertising and Sponsorship

For clarity and for the purpose of better organization of the article, I would recommend changing the section on "Lawsuits" to "Lawsuits and Controversies". In addition, I would add the subheading titled "All-American Muslim Advertising" and its subsequent information to the new section. Information on the controversy created by changing the name of a Christmas Tree to a Family Tree should also be placed in the new section. I think it would be best to keep positive and informative information regarding advertising in the "Advertising and Sponsorship" section as opposed to things that are more controversial.

Proposed split

I am proposing splitting the Canada section of this article to a new article, Lowe's Canada. The Canadian division has over 500 stores and has significant room for article expansion. This would be similar to how Walmart Canada is separated from Walmart. Any comments or objections? The comment period will be left open for one week since the timestamp on the signature. Cheers, Daylen (talk) 17:43, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

I don't see any problem with splitting this article, since there is a precedent in the Walmart Canada article. Someone will need to do the work to expand the Canada section into a full article. G._Moore (talk · contribs) 16:00, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Before a split is done, significant work needs to be done detailing the Lowe's Canada operation. I don't want to see a Start-class article created just because a split can be made. I am not opposed to a split if there is a significant difference in management structures, finances, supply chain, and other business operations, but if there isn't a great degree of separation between how Lowe's operates in Canada and in the States, I say leave it as is. Intelqual (talk) 13:30, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Just an update following the announcement of the pending sale of Lowe's Canada to private equity, per The Globe and Mail: "Existing Lowe’s-branded stores in Canada will eventually adopt the Rona banner." So at this juncture I would suggest there isn't much point pursuing a split, instead it would be better to focus on the existing Rona (store) article. — stickguy (:^›)— || talk || 13:38, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Locations Map

The blue dots against the dark grey background make the locations map very difficult to read visually. Should somebody swap them to a standard white map with blue dots? 2601:4C4:C202:2AE0:40A:ED52:8DB:E7AD (talk) 09:39, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Image location

File:Loweswarehouse.jpg was uploaded in 2007. [some confusion here... appears to be a reupload of an image originally added by user:Coolcaesar by 2006. Cmt added 07:20, 10 May 2026 (UTC)] There was no location given, and the description originally given in Lowes was simply "A typical Lowe's storefront". Since then more than one location has been added (without sourcing) and now an editor is attempting to change the location to Sunnyvale, CA. This location, and the others I noticed in the article from 2007 and from today (I did not bother checking what else has been claimed) are unsourced WP:OR. I have restored the original image description.

Claims that a user happens to "recognize this store" or that the almost-20-year-old image resembles an online image of a particular store, or that the door matches are not convincing. It's a chain. Many of them look similar. Meters (talk) 06:16, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

See the discussion below. ^NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 06:23, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

@Meters - I don't see how that image wasn't taken in the location I marked is wrong. Even without WP:RS, this should be far more than enough to determine the fact that that Lowe's store is in Sunnyvale, California.

Here are some links that I provided, including ones that are already introduced, and some others from other links.

Wikimapia

Google - There are dozens of images here that match the location

Google

Yelp

I don't understand why you're complaining over a simple issue that is the truth per WP:COMMONSENSE. Wikipedia says in its own rules that you should be able to ignore a rule if you wanted to, as long as you think it is correct, as seen in WP:IGNOREALLRULES. Therefore, I don't see how my edits are unconstructive. However, I don't wish to initiate an WP:EDITWAR, a WP:DISPUTE, or revert more than three times. I would appreciate a reply here. ^NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 06:21, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Please don't start a second thread, and then ask me to respond as if I hadn't already started the thread. I've combined the threads and reformatted the indents.

You claim on your talk page that you are familiar with OR. Well, making an edit because you claim that you recognize the store or that the door looks the same to you is classic WP:OR. The images on the user-generated sites are not considered reliable sources, and that fact that they look similar is not convincing in any case. It's a chain. Many of the stores will look similar. The uploader did not specify where the image was taken, and we've had several different unsourced claims as to which store is pictured. And I said all this in the thread you ignored or on your talk page. Meters (talk) 06:42, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

WP:IAR is not a free license to ignore WP:RS and WP:OR simply because you believe you are right. I'm sure the other editors who added unsourced claims of which store this is thought they were correct too. Meters (talk) 06:47, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Please don't start a second thread, and then ask me to respond as if I hadn't already started the thread. I've combined the threads and reformatted the indents It took me more than 10 minutes to type that out, and I already started typing it before you asked me to go to the talk page. ^NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 17:49, 10 May 2026 (UTC)