21.   Procrastinators fighting for plywood caused turmoil at home improvement stores.

22.   Privately-held Wegmans Food of Rochester owns supermarkets and home improvement stores in New York and Pennsylvania.

23.   Sales and operating profit at Homebase, which operates home improvement stores, showed the strongest growth.

24.   Satellite signals critical to military operations can be jammed using cheap equipment from home improvement stores and electronics fairs, a U.S. Air Force team has found.

25.   Sainsbury also operates the Homebase and Texas chains of home improvement stores.

26.   Showroom building corridors were filled not just with furniture buyers, but with buyers from office supply stores, home improvements stores and home electronics stores as well.

27.   Such numbers have attracted the attention of home improvement stores.

28.   That sent Marcus and Blank, now chairman and chief executive, respectively, on a desperate mission to build a bigger and better home improvement store.

29.   The accounting change was for a writedown of its struggling Builders Square chain of home improvement stores and some international operations.

30.   The food retailer also operates Texas and Homecare home improvement stores.