Results tagged “homedepot”

--A three-alarm fire broke out at an apartment complex in Framingham yesterday afternoon. Three firefighters and three residents of the complex went to the hospital for minor injuries. [Boston Globe]

So, Gawker started up this feature on "The Poors," in which they ruthlessly mock media encounters with those of us who don't have trust funds. Gawker might be interested in a recent front-page article by the Globe about the South Bay Center, the big ol' mall that is apparently a crossroads of class conflict. The form of Sarah Schweitzer's article isn't the problem. Well, maybe the fact that the Globe put a story about a...

Allegedly Robert P. Dooley has defrauded Home Depot of enough money to build his own house. Approximately $330k of merchandise was swiped by the former IRS official. The Boston Globe reports that the former Salem resident would walk into a Home Depot store, fill his cart with “floor tiles, casement windows, sliding doors, or other items” and bypass the checkout line. He'd head straight to the returns line (always a painfully long line in Bostonist's...

It may only have been a funnier news item if it were actually featured in The Onion. Clever headlines like "No pans, just pot in this cabinet," "Home DePOT Vanities Hold Drugs," "Marijuana 'bricks' found in Home Depot vanities," and "Plumber finds a fix in the fixture" graced the headers of online and print media as the fifth reported stash of drugs was found inside a bathroom vanity purchased from a Home Depot in Massachusetts. On June 8 a report came in from Tewksbury that a large amount of marijuana had been found inside a marble topped vanity, police conducted some searches and found there were a couple more vanities that held more than just a couple of holes in the back for the plumbing. 50 lbs bricks, some cocaine, and trace amounts of sawdust were reported to be included inside the bathroom vanity.

Boston, a random Saturday... The metrosexuals are heading to Louis Boston for designer denim, bi-weekly manis/pedis, and indiscreet eyebrow waxes, but where are the "guys' guys" supposed to go when the significant others are out shopping at some frilly retail location that rugged, outdoorsy sorts of males wouldn't even be caught dead waiting outside of in their pickup trucks? Luckily, the Kraft family (who, coincidentally, also owns the Patriots) is planning on giving "real...

When Filene's was bought by Federated Department Stores, Inc. this past February for $17 billion, many anticipated changes to Downtown Crossing. After already going through an identity crisis (changing from Boston's own Jordan Marsh to Macy's), the Macy's storefront has always remained a competitor with Filene's and her basement across the street. This recent buyout of Filene's now leaves Federated, who happens to own Macy's too, with two stores across the street from one another. A Globe article today mentions talk of Target execs' interest in taking over the Macy's spot and turning it into one of their stores. According to our beloved mayor, he was in Istanbul last month at the International Council of Shopping Centers, and was chatting it up with them. Menino of course put in his two cents: "I'm a big fan of Target...It would bring a lot of vibrancy to that area."