Lowe’s Home Improvement is expanding its tool rentals departments to more Charlotte-area stores. Lowe’s launched its Lowe’s Tool Rental in August at Charlotte’s South End store. Now the company is expanding the program to four more stores in the area, according to the Charlotte Observer.
The Rock Hill store opened its tool rental department this week. By early next year, Lowe’s plans to open tool rental departments in Fort Mill, S.C.; Gastonia, N.C.; and Concord, N.C.
Lowe’s Home Improvement is based in Mooresville, N.C.
The rental department includes commercial-grade equipment from Husqvarna, Bosch, Metabo and other brands. Reservations check-in and check-out can be made online or at an in-store kiosk.
The rental departments are about 4,000 square feet and include newly constructed spaces expanding the Lowe’s store or separate buildings on store property.
The departments also include a mechanics shop, onsite cleaning and product demonstration areas. Protective equipment and commercial-grade cleaning solutions also are available for purchase.
For more information, visit https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/whats-in-store/article247583470.htm
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.