Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Home improvement retailer Lowe's says it's laying off approximately 125 information technology workers, the third round of job cuts this year. Chief Information Officer Paul Ramsay said in a memo that the affected workers were notified Wednesday. He said the Mooresville, North Carolina-based company has spent the last several years planning a strategic IT workforce team to respond better in what he called "this highly competitive 24/7 retail environment." Some of the jobs will be relocated to Bangalore, India.

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Interesting fact about Lowes and Home Depot

[Spy Handler]

Founder of Lowes is a Hillary supporter and contributed money to her campaign.

Founder of Home Depot is a Trump supporter and contributed money to his campaign.

These two companies form a duopoly in the home improvement stores in the US, and the Republican/Democrat parties are a duopoly in government.

Re:Taking it al back

[bill_mcgonigle]

If more people were willing to pay a little bit extra and go to companies that treated their employees fairly and bought their goods from firms that did the same the world would be a better place.

They mostly don't exist.

I started driving 1.5 hrs to a HD after the local hardware store* would not sell me a replacement entry door for less than $459 and I found one at HD for $129, based on a co-worker's recommendation (HD did not have any websites then).

* the one of three that actually had doors