Throwback Thursday is a regular weekly feature in which we dip into the archives of the Hardlines Weekly Report.
Ten years ago, we reported on an insane (well, the official term is “frivolous”) lawsuit, that saw Lowe’s being charged by officialdom for advertising 2×4 lumber when it was not, indeed, truly 2 inches by 4 inches. (Most people know that the actual dimensions of a 2×4 are exactly 1.5 inches x 3.5 inches.)
We wrote, on Oct. 13, 2014: “Officials in the Bureau of Weights and Measures [have] charged Lowe’s with consumer fraud over the real dimensions of its 2x4s, in what The Motley Fool characterized as part of a ‘rising wave of frivolous lawsuits.’ According to a Lowe’s statement, the complaint arose after [California] weights and measures department inspectors visited Lowe’s stores and found that its dimensional lumber was ‘under-sized.’” Lowe’s was forced to put up signs explaining the actual measurements of its lumber.
