Orchard Supply Hardware | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-29

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:08 1 History
00:03:44 2 Operations
00:03:53 2.1 Mergers and Acquisitions
00:05:48 2.2 Expansion
00:06:37 2.3 Reorganization
00:08:04 2.4 Technology
00:09:41 3 Marketing
00:09:50 3.1 Boxcar
00:10:49 3.2 Calendars



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Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) was an American retailer of home improvement and gardening products. Headquarters were in San Jose, California, Orchard Supply Hardware had dozens of locations throughout California, with expansions into Oregon and Florida.
After starting as a non-profit cooperative in 1931, the company later converted into a for-profit corporation before it was bought and sold by a number of different corporations during the 1980s. In 1996, the company was acquired by Sears. After a brief period as a public company in 2012–13, the company filed for a chapter 11 reorganization. In 2013, the bulk of OSH's assets and locations were purchased by the home improvement store chain, Lowe's.  For the next five years, the chain was operated as a subsidiary of Lowes and used for strategic expansion of retail operations. All stores were closed in November 2018.