The world has changed, but the bad times will be shorter than most people fear.

The Home Depot has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Your "Other" Warehouse, one of the country's premier plumbing distributors, with a focus on special order fulfillment.

Like every other sector of the industry, the plumbing-heating supply business has been wracked with change over the past couple of decades. Tension and misunderstanding between wholesalers and contractors is probably at an all-time high as a result.

The darkest hours are before the dawn.

People, productivity, quality and safety are the focal points.

Value-added is a struggle to achieve, but the struggle must go on.

Training focuses on the human resource of service contracting.

By the 1920s the company had carved out a dominant niche as a supplier of faucets and valves to plumbing specifiers and commercial maintenance engineers in the Midwest.

Blue collar bias prevails, so the pay stinks, and that's why wackos find work in the industry.

Except some of the things you learn, you wish you hadn't!