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    RobertMadooHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 10:24am

    John Menard Jr., the owner of Menards, is worth $9 billion.

    $9,000,000,000.

    Something in this country is wrong where someone worth 9 billion fucking dollars can pull a stunt like this with no fear for their safety.

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      benjaminalloverRobertMadoo
      4/05/16 10:27am

      Only someone with that kind of immunity from reality would make such an idiotic threat. All it does is call attention to their terrible labor relations in a market saturated with alternative home improvement stores for folks with values to choose from.

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      Carmen PolentaRobertMadoo
      4/05/16 10:28am

      Fear for their safety?

      What are you the Wu Tang Clan? Gimme a break, Buster. You’re no tough guy. I was in The Rangers not too long ago and yes that involved a stint in Delta. Don’t talk to me about safety. I am your safety.

      Robert, you live in America where the police protect your ability to make a fool of yourself like this without physical repercussion. Robert I am pleading with you to discontinue this provocative behaviour. I will not always be there to save your ass, Robert. Please stop acting like a violent loon.

      Also if you live in Wisconsin pls vote for Trump today.

      Maek America Great Again!

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    IAmNotADamnWriterHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 10:31am

    What is it about Ohio? Never mind, that was a rhetorical question. I’ve got an idea. Why don’t home-improvement shoppers (particularly union members and Democrats) just stop shopping at his more than 280 stores in various states. And at anything else he owns. Maybe some union should organize this. Simplistic, I know, feel free to provide other ideas.

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      KumfinemeeIAmNotADamnWriter
      4/05/16 10:42am

      I’m thinking all the big box home improvement store owners share his opinion. I shop locally, thank goodness Chinatown still has a few good stores that caters to contractors and such.

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      Sluicer's ghostIAmNotADamnWriter
      4/05/16 10:46am

      Well, there is the whole lynch mob approach. Burn the stores to the ground? Or wait! as you said, don't shop there.... However, as noted, it is Ohio.

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 10:26am

    Good. They build shit-castle stores, anyway. It’s like their in-house architect got his or her inspiration from a low-rent bouncy castle.

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      OT.level7GeorgeGeoffersonLives
      4/05/16 10:33am

      Truth. Menards is a TJMaxx with pressure treated lumber. Fuck Menards.

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      phunkshunGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      4/05/16 10:46am

      The outside sort of reminds me of some sort of mutant mashup of Stew Leonard’s and Fairway. I mean the style sheet used there is almost uncanny.

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    knownothingsHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 10:27am

    Also, he hates the environment... From one of a half-dozen or so violations on Wikipedia:

    In 1997, John Menard was found using his personal pickup truck to haul plastic bags of chromium and arsenic-laden wood ash to his home for disposal with his household trash. Menard pleaded no contest to felony and misdemeanor charges involving records violations, unlawful transportation, and improper disposal of hazardous waste. Menard and his company were fined $1.7 million for 21 violations.

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      KinglyCitrusknownothings
      4/05/16 10:38am

      Wait, so the guy’s a convicted felon? What the fuck?

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      TheburnerabidesKinglyCitrus
      4/05/16 10:45am

      Billionaire “convicted” felon

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    beatrixkiddoHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 11:02am

    How does Home Depot compare in how it treats its employees? Menards is my closest BIG home imporvement store, but luckily I can get most day-to-day stuff at the Ace down the street. But when I need a whole bunch of tile or something I have to go to one of these big places. Who is being good to their employees?

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      lena dunhams boobsbeatrixkiddo
      4/05/16 11:28am

      Or the three, Menards is the absolute worst. This is the company that makes it’s employees sign a contract stating that any home improvement they do at their own property MUST be approved by corporate. Failure to do so results in immediate termination. I am not shitting you on this....

      Likewise you sign a no-retail clause much like Jimmy Johns where you are not allowed to work in ANY retail upon being terminated. Not just like working for Lowes or Home Depot, but ANY retail. Beyond the fact that such a clause would likely not hold up in court it is ludicrous to think thats even acceptable to put in a contract for a run of the mill employee.

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      beatrixkiddolena dunhams boobs
      4/05/16 11:35am

      That is nuts! Why do they care what home improvement projects people are doing for themselves?!

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    gramercypoliceHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 10:33am

    As soon as they scared Dickens away, Fenster stopped shopping there in 1964.

    [i think i deserve some credit for the most obscure cultural reference comment of the week]

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      Dave gramercypolice
      4/05/16 10:36am

      As one referencer of obscure culture to another, I bow before your superior obscura.

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      Yougramercypolice
      4/05/16 10:41am

      Sure it's only Tuesday, but that's going to be tough to beat.

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    Eshin242Hamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 10:30am

    Man, I wish I could find some investors and open a nice home improvement store, much like a Menards in this Ohio town. It seems all the market research has been done and there is enough business there to justify a large store. I’ll pay my employees well and treat them right so they’ll tell all their friends to shop at our store. We would get to give people good paying jobs and screw a temper tantrum throwing billionaire out of some money. It’s really a win-win.

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      deanmartinsrectalpolyps2Eshin242
      4/05/16 10:47am

      Your investors would get annoyed at the labor costs you’d be racking up that would cut into their returns. You’d be muscled out and your dream store would become like just about every other retail operation that isn’t small and closely held.

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      first time talker long time listenerEshin242
      4/05/16 10:56am

      Used to do some work for Sears. The Eddie Lampert and John Menard type seem perfectly aligned with assholes like Trump. Absolutely clueless about the real world and what people think of them, but all that money means they’re better than everyone, somehow...

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    KumichoHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 10:43am

    Um, excuse me sir, I speak corporate jargon. What the rich guy said is, “your town sucks and probably can’t support a Menards store, but I’m going to blame it on the black guy in the hopes that you do too.”

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      deanmartinsrectalpolyps2Kumicho
      4/05/16 10:50am

      You are no doubt correct.

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    Flm3454Hamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 11:45am

    They have their own in-house ad agency and their CPP spend is so ridiculously low, yet they are one of the most high-maintenance when it comes to their account. They are the divas of the home inprovement superstores, for sure.

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      The Once and Future KingFlm3454
      4/05/16 1:10pm

      I had an ex who was in a bunch of their ads. She had some random admin job at HQ, but she was pretty so they just started using her. It was weird.

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      Flm3454The Once and Future King
      4/06/16 9:59am

      Kind of makes sense with their in-house agency. And interesting to know!

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    The Noble RenardHamilton Nolan
    4/05/16 10:33am

    Remember, unless a store can make the owner obscenely wealthy, there’s no reason a store should ever be opened. It’s the “fuck you, I’m rich enough to do what I want” principle!

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