Dewalt & Home Depot now sleeping together

[123tiguy]

Dewalt has entered into an agreement making Home Depot their exclusive reseller for Dewalt tools. As most of you know Black & Decker owns Dewalt as well as Weiser. From what I understand a lot of Dewalt resellers are pretty upset.
RONA has taken the bull by the horns and will be dumping Dewalt, all B & D tools and all Weiser as well. Keep your eyes open for some bargains on all 3 brands at your nearest RONA in the very near future. I'm not sure what the other Dewalt resellers will be doing but I'm sure they won't be taking this lightly either.
H'mm, just in time for Christmas.

[Captain Snazzypants]

High drama in the hardware aisles! With two little kids running aorund, I won't be looking for anything sharp that plugs in, but that's a good tip for any of the workshop warrior wannabes out there

[dealCker]

Dewalt has entered into an agreement making Home Depot their exclusive reseller for Dewalt tools. As most of you know Black & Decker owns Dewalt as well as Weiser. From what I understand a lot of Dewalt resellers are pretty upset.
RONA has taken the bull by the horns and will be dumping Dewalt, all B & D tools and all Weiser as well. Keep your eyes open for some bargains on all 3 brands at your nearest RONA in the very near future. I'm not sure what the other Dewalt resellers will be doing but I'm sure they won't be taking this lightly either.
H'mm, just in time for Christmas.

Cool, i need a new driver/impact gun set..

[cechlin]

Should be shopping discussion for now...

I can see this creating A LOT of hot deals so thanks OP for the heads-up.

[rchong]

Thanks. I should really stop buying tools though...

[abstract808]

Source? A lot of stores other than HD & RONA sell Dewalt & B&D tools.

[Bastich]

Source? A lot of stores other than HD & RONA sell Dewalt & B&D tools.

I hope so. I doubt Rona would intentionally hand Home Depot a monopoly on DeWalt, but that's gotta hurt DeWalt's sales. Too bad, because HD wouldn't budge on their price when Rona had my mitre saw on sale.

[number8888]

Dewalt has entered into an agreement making Home Depot their exclusive reseller for Dewalt tools. As most of you know Black & Decker owns Dewalt as well as Weiser. From what I understand a lot of Dewalt resellers are pretty upset.
RONA has taken the bull by the horns and will be dumping Dewalt, all B & D tools and all Weiser as well. Keep your eyes open for some bargains on all 3 brands at your nearest RONA in the very near future. I'm not sure what the other Dewalt resellers will be doing but I'm sure they won't be taking this lightly either.
H'mm, just in time for Christmas.

Source for the story? I am interested in the reason behind an agreement like this ... doesn't sound very smart to me.

[1LuckyGuy]

What about the fact that Stanley is buying up Black & Decker? Are they going to be boycotted also? :p

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...03-718472.html

[123tiguy]

What about the fact that Stanley is buying up Black & Decker? Are they going to be boycotted also? :p

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...03-718472.html

The plot thickens. Stay tuned. As of today Rona has discontinued Weiser. They are still selling their product until stock runs out. Sales will probably come soon.
Dewalt and Black and Decker have not been discontinued yet.

[Kami19]

right on now to find a rona that carries screwguns!! hard to find a real one.

[CSK'sMom]

Hmmm... I can see a couple of reasons for this. Could HD be trying to position themselves with several exclusive offerings and brands in anticipation of Lowes expanding further?

[GreyingJay]

That's crazy! That's like Shoppers Drug Mart becoming the exclusive distributor for milk.

I only ever bought some of my tools (Ridgid, DeWalt or otherwise) from Home Depot. A lot of it was bought from local independent tool super-warehouses, or places like Billy Bee Tools. Even Canadian Tire.

This stuff rarely goes on sale, and you can bet that this deal will keep it that way.