Throwback Thursday is a weekly feature in which we dip into the archives of the Hardlines Weekly Report.
Exactly 25 years ago, on May 8, 2000, we reported on the activities of Kent Building Supplies.
It was “bracing” for the arrival of Home Depot in Atlantic Canada after the world’s largest home improvement retailer had just expanded into the province of Quebec. “Kent Building Supplies is continuing expansion of both its big box and traditional formats as it braces for the arrival of Home Depot in Atlantic Canada,” we wrote.
Kent was opening another big box, its sixth, in Saint John, N.B., in the fall of 2000. Home Depot would finally arrive in Atlantic Canada in 2003, with a store in Moncton.
