Expo closing sale starts Tuesday with 10% off

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The going-out-of-business sales start Tuesday at Home Depot’s 34 Expo Design Centers. The Atlanta home-improvement retailer said today it would be closing the chain, costing 7,000 jobs.

Discounts start at 10% and will increase through April 8, the last day the stores will be open.

Home Depot launched the Expo chain in 1999 to offer higher-ticket merchandise to do-it-yourself fans who wanted to remodel without a decorator. The cavernous Expo stores, which provided design and installation assistance for a fee, were organized around a series of tasteful room displays.

Home Depot also is closing five YardBirds stores, all in California; a Design Center store in California and another in North Carolina and a bath remodeling business called HD Bath.

Twelve of the Expo stores are in California, including:

-- Anaheim, 1011 N. Tustin Ave.
-- Huntington Beach, 6912 Edinger Ave.
-- Laguna Nigel, 25600 Rancho Niguel Road
-- Westwood, 10861 Weyburn Ave.
-- Monrovia, 407 W. Huntington Dr.
-- Redondo Beach, 1519 Hawthorne Blvd.

-- Nancy Rivera Brooks