1.   ATLANTA - Home Depot is realigning its merchandising operation as it tries to make its warehouse stores more neighborhood-focused.

2.   But entering Costco.com is a markedly underwhelming experience compared with entering a Costco warehouse store.

3.   Carefully, if the Costco Wholesale Corp., the chain of enormous and enormously successful warehouse stores, is any guide.

4.   COFFEE My wife and I buy our coffee at a warehouse store.

5.   Distributors were also encouraged to expand beyond delis and supermarkets and into warehouse stores and mass-merchandising outlets where they had not been sold before.

6.   For many smokers, the convenience beats driving to New Hampshire or paying annual dues to a warehouse club store, two places where prices are competitive.

7.   For the trips to the wholesale warehouse store, the rear seats fold individually, and there is a pass-through for skis.

8.   He wished the Russian president had time to see the American economy up close and personal, perhaps a trip to a warehouse store or a giant supermarket.

9.   Hechinger in that same telephone call to analysts said it was moving away from the no-frills format of the Home Quarters warehouse stores, according to several analysts.

10.   Home Depot is considering putting its regular warehouse store on one floor and an Expo Design Center on another, said Andrew Katz of developer Blumenfeld Development Group.