I'm not sure, at least in my area, if HD / Lowes was to blame.
1991 we had four hardware / lumberyards in my neighboring town. Two of them folded up shortly afterwards, and a third just seems to have lost the "will to live." I know that's an odd description of the store, but it's the best I can think of.
It wasn't until 2000 or so we even had a Big Box within 45 minutes of here. It was only a couple months ago Lowes opened in that town...so I don't know who killed off 2 and 3/4 out of 4 stores 15 years ago.
I try a patronize a lumberyard a couple towns north of me. Yes, hours aren't as convenient as Lowes, and the prices are bit higher. But so is the quality of the materials -- Benjamin Moore paint insted of store brands, I can buy Cuperinol with twice as much copper in for 25% more money then what Home Depot sells as their brand of preservative. I'm not spending half an hour going through a pile of wood at a big box trying to find four decent pieces of lumber -- I go to the pile, the worker and I get the wood, and maybe 1 in 10 pieces I don't want.
Especially with gas prices now, I'm also getting good at what the local hardware, auto parts, or feed stores don't have and it's not worth the cost for them to carry just mail ordering instead of driving multiple places to find just what I want.
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