An Interview with Jimmy McCarter of Lowe's in Chapel Hill Lowe's is a national chain of hardware and home-improvement stores with a large concentration of business in North Carolina. It has serviced the Chapel Hill market from a small store on Franklin Street near Eastgate Shopping Center for many years. Jimmy McCarter, one of the managers of that store, spoke with Kim Wildner about competition with Wal-Mart and Home Depot in June 1996. We're a high-cost market, first off, in this county. So, you're talking about high cost.
Orange County keeps a small business base and tries to keep large business out.
That's their ideology even though we're fighting that every step of the way. They're slowing growth. All your small shops, like Performance Bicycle. Anything small they're OK with usually. But our new store will be here in Orange County, just barely.