JB Hunt: $5B Home Depot carrier shuts down Georgia hub—entire workforce eliminated

The shelves in the HD i go to have seemed to be less stocked the past few months. Many slots completely empty. The Lowes doesn't seem to be having that problem, but somethings they don't stock at all, only the HD.

 

It really doesn’t sound like a Home Depot issue. More than likely JB lost the contract or couldn’t compete.

Been a few years but I vaguely remember picking up in Georgia at an old run down warehouse that JB controlled.

What they handled there was defective merchandise from Home Depot. I actually picked up a ftl of defective/returned faucets.

I delivered them to an EBay seller who worked out of a barn. He got the load via an auction.

Seem about right since they’re saying only 75 employees..which isn’t squat.

Hardly a newsworthy event but throw in some loaded words, leave out some details and now you got an audience.

 

Spent a lot of years hauling out of the HD Lumber DC in Clearfield UT. The transportation side was controlled by Swift, then Scully, then back to Swift when it came to the local contracts. Then you had outside carriers like my boss who got multi year contracts going to different stores.

As far as the comment about shelves being empty, that’s on the vendors more so than Home Depot. We hauled a lot of lumber into the DC in Utah also and it was all vendor managed inventory. Home Depot didn’t pay for it until it went out of the store basically.