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Lowe’s Store Operations Senior V.P. Terry Johnson on efforts to keep merchandise available for consumers during a crisis such as Hurricane Sandy.
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Now let's take a look at what products have been flying off the shelves at Lowe's.
How they are working to -- stock over -- joining us now is Terry Johnson he's Lowe's store operations senior vice president Terry.
Thanks for being here so again question I asked Doug how many years stores you keep an open how many are close.
Yeah we've got about thirty sort right now that have closed and that we expect to have somewhere around sixty or just above but they ended the day that will close.
Early.
Let's talk about pricing.
Do you make any changes that -- pricing during an emergency situation herself looked at a simple gouging.
Definitely is not one thing that we have done for years as we lockdown our price -- Any time we have nature of them like this -- we we do not have any price increases.
For -- weeks after an -- Where is the inventory kept Terry because again a lot of people fall run out of the water supplies as we just heard from Doug.
Where do you keep the inventories for those stores run out.
Yes we've got a number of species up in the northeast in we've really been fortunate we've been able to get product quickly to the store from those areas so.
To a fortune to have the DC in the markets but there's tremendous demand for.
For all the product generators water and how much it is coming directly from our suppliers.
You know but to generators -- -- -- complicated pieces of machinery.
Your simplest one what's the price usually Anderson was generator.
Around 400 dollars do you have any last.
We have very few -- there's some scattered battle -- -- working.
Feverishly to find more and get amounts are source quickest possible.
What about gasoline Jerry for all the generators that are being sold now do I know some of these big stores sell gasoline.
Or have have have filling stations affiliated with the -- stores themselves yeah Hussein.
We do not have gas station.
Nor do we -- debt.
Terry Johnson Lowe's store operations senior VP we so appreciate you taking time in your very busy damn sure.
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