Menards
Every Menards store shares a common structure. The store is primarily divided by departments: building materials, hardware, electrical, millwork, wall coverings, plumbing and housewares, floor coverings, and cabinets and appliances. Other areas of the store include the front end (cashiers, office functions, carryouts, etcetera) and the receiving crew (responsible for the lumber yard, shipments between the store and the distributions centers, and other delivery and merchandise logistics). In a typical store there is a store manager, two assistant managers, a manager for each department, and a varying number of sales floor team members depending upon the volume of guests typical at that store. Depending on store volume, some departments are combined or have only one assistant manager.
Menards stores are divided by size into categories based on store size and product range from P1 (Prototype size 1) to P5 (prototype size 5), as well as Hardware Plus (smaller than P1 with less building materials selections) and non-prototype (usually stores that have moved into pre-existing locations or locations where large prototype stores will not fit, such as the 2-story stores).
Recently, most of the larger (240,000 sq ft and larger) Menards stores began selling groceries.
In March 2005, the company opened the first 2-story, 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m2) Menards megastore in St. Paul, Minnesota. It followed in November of 2006 with another 2-story store in Hodgkins, Illinois. In March 2009, Menards opened its flagship megastore in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The Waukesha megastore is the largest Menards in the United States and has two glass elevators, two massive industrial escalators, and a snack shop.
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