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It's good to be Martha Stewart. The grand dame of all things home is expanding her brands to Home Depot in January, just as her contract with Kmart expires. Home Depot will carry a line of outdoor living, home organization and home decor products under the Martha Stewart Living brand. It's been...

More than 50,000 generators sold at Home Depot and Sam's Club are being recalled because they can leak fuel and catch fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.The Chinese-made generators were sold between July 2008 and May under the Homelite, Husky and Black Max brand names for...

The Home Depot is sponsoring another of its free Saturday morning workshops for parents and kids to build something together.The Aug. 1 workshop is a free "How-To Clinic" for children ages 5-12 where they will be building a message center with cork on one side and a whiteboard on the other. The...

You no longer have to wonder why your grill is running out of gas a bit sooner than it used to.Following the lead of ice cream makers who decided consumers would rather pay the same and get less, the propane exchanges you're getting at places including The Home Depot and Lowes are selling you less...

Average Americans aren't the only ones paring back. Big boxes are taking a mini-break, opening smaller concept stores and testing new formats.The New York Times has a story about large retailers doing just that. OfficeMax has 2,000 sq. ft. convenience size stores called Ink Paper Scissors, while...

Home Depot and Lowe's are offering free clinics to build a jewelry box (Feb. 14 at Lowe's), race car (Feb. 28 at Lowe's) or raceway (March 7 at Home Depot. The Lowe's Build and Grow Clinics require online registration. If the Feb. 14 jewelry box doesn't do it for your kid, try the Feb. 28 Lowe's...

The turkey hasn't even been cooked, but retailers are already lowering prices for Black Friday online. BlackFriday.info tracked down 16 stores that are already offering deals of Black Friday proportion. The tracker will be constantly updated as we move through the rest of the week and should prove...

Louie is the go-to guy in our local hardware store, Mazzone's. Most of the time, all we have to do is stand in the entryway of the small store and tell him what we need. My husband, who manages several apartments, is there constantly, consulting with Louie about the right size nuts and bolts or...

In case you haven't heard, it won't be too long before everybody in the country will be switching over to compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs. Although the twisty little lights are more expensive than ordinary lightbulbs, they use about a quarter of the electricity and last ten times as long....

I'm a firm believer in using the power of the internet to keep retailers and service providers honest. And I think consumers owe it to each other to report those companies that provide poor or dishonest service to their customers. But it's equally important to let the world know what you've have a...