Who here believes that the hardware stores like home depot , lowes , ace, true value ?

Question

and also furniture stores that sale lighting fixtures etc are the companys that waste energy by having all there lights on there lighting fixture displays , i e ceiling fans , lamps etc on all day long when all they need to do is have one of each item they sale on display and let the potintial customer turn them on so they can see for them self instead of leaving them on all day

Answer 1

The store needs light. The whole store has lights on all the time. Maybe to conserve light they could turn off the regular store lighting in the light department and let the fixtures on display in that area provide all the light. I have seen this done in some stores.

Answer 2

Store managers routinely try reducing lighting and displays to cut their electric bills.

Every time they try this they lose so much in sales that they go back to more lighting.

Essentially when you tell astore to cut back on its lighting you are telling that store to lose sales and income.

When a store loses income the store has to cut costs, often by firing employees, or cutting their pay.

Rather than cut the pay of the employees at the store why don't you cut your paycheck or give seveal hundred dollars per week of your money to the store to help make up for their lost sales?

Even if you were willing to give that store several hundred dollars per week to make up for the lost sales, you would not even begin to offset their losses, but at least you would be putting your money where your mouth is.

I have noticed that many of my friends in the environmental movement are very generous with other people's money and will tell other people how to spend their money, however they scream bloody murder is they have to spend their own money to make up for the losses they cause another person.

If you really want to save a large amount of electricity you should persuade Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards and Al Gore to move out of those ridiculously large mansions that they live in.

Those mansions use more than 10 times the amount of electricity as the average family of 4 and far more electricity than those stores use running their displays of lamps and television sets.

While you are at it tell Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards and Al Gore to stop flying those private jets all over the place for their private transportation. Those jets use more than 1,000 times the amount of fossil fuel per mile traveled as the most wasteful SUV.

Working together we can make a real difference!

Answer 3

Its all apart of our dying world. Our climate is changing. Department stores are taking over (wal-mart) War is becoming more and more of a problem. Our forests are depleting. Animals are dying out. Our soil is being polluted. Our water is becoming toxic. The human population is becoming to large. We have created chemicals that disrupt entire ecosystems if a drop is spilt. People dont trust each other. Humanity is doomed.

Answer 4

Excellent idea!

I agree: the number of lights you have on at one time in a lighting display has no correlation to sales, people are more affected by the overall appearance of the display reflecting the type of lifestyle they want to project.  

That statement is like GM saying they can't sell as many cars because the price of electricity went up (it really happened).  The only appropriate response is: "If you can't sell your product profitably, stop blaming everyone else!"

And a lot of the big box outlet stores here have their display lights on motion switches so if no one is in the lighting aisle they turn off.  Good idea for home, too.

Answer 5

I agree they should .Shaws has dimmed their lights and turned out some of them to conserve on energy I don't think there is any reason why others can't do the same.

Answer 6

Here's another boo-hiss for Lowe's. The one near me has bins of boxes that people can take if they need them, and sometimes there will be other materials like styrofoam, etc. Not long ago, I found a large tarp like banner in one. When I checked out, I told the girl that I had gotten it out of the bin. She called the manager to make sure I could take it and he said 'No'. No explanation was given. I was going to use it under a bench I was refinishing, instead of buying one, to catch any stain spills. I thought it was ridiculous that they were throwing it away instead of letting me use it for a good purpose!

I have since curbed my shopping at Lowe's, even though they are close.