Home Depot Halts Sales to Government
The Home Depot Inc., the nation’s largest hardware and home-improvement chain, has told its 1,400 stores not to do business with the U.S. government or its representatives, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
The General Services Administration just learned of the policy, said Susan McIver of the GSA. “Home Depot has not contacted us, so I’ve got no idea what their problem is.”
As of April, 384,520 government employees were using “GSA Smart Pay” cards for purchases other than travel or fleet operations, McIver said.
The notice also says commercial credit-card customers will be alerted with their June bill that purchases would not be allowed “that would cause the company to be covered by or responsible in any way for compliance with” three federal laws or executive orders: Executive Order 11246 of 1965, Section 503 and Section 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974.
