NEWLITERATURE

Building Book Set

The first four volumes of the Carpenters & Builders Library (Toob, Steel Square, Joinery; Builders Math, Plans, Specifications; l,ayout, Foundation, Franing; Millwork, Power Tools, Painting) are $16.95 ea. fronr MacMillan Publishing Co., (212) 702-6760.

Cedar Source Books

The 4-p. "Western Red Cedar Products Use Guide" and 4-p. "Where to Buy Guide" are free from Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, (5O3) 224 -3930.

Landscaper's Script

Garden Design with Foliage : Ferns and Grasses, Vines and Ground Covers, Annuals and Perennials, Trees and Sftrubs is $ 17.95 from Storey Communications, (800) 827-8673.

For Prompt Service

on all New Literature stori€s write directly to the name and address shown in each item. Please mention that you saw it in Building Products Digest, Many thanks!

Through The Roof

"Tips from the Top," a pocket-sized booklet on roof window installation, is free frorn Roto Frank of America, (800) 2430893.

Door Installation Video

The 20-min. video "Your Guide to PreHung Door Installation" is available to Georgia-Pacific door stocking dealers from G-P, (404) 52r-4746.

Gonstruction Connectors

An updated 64-p. "Corurectors for Wood Construction" catalog is free from Sitnpson Strong-Tie Co., (415) 562-7775.

Woodwork Finder

The Architectural Woodwork Institute 1992 Source Book is available from AWI. (703) 222-ttOO.

Canadian Dimension Lumber

A 65-p. Canadian Dimercion Lumber Data Book, revised to reflect new design values. is $6 frorn Canadian Wood Council, (800) s3l-3t22.

Cover Walls

The 128-p. softbound Decorating with Paint and Wallcoverings is $8.95 from Sunset Books, (8@) 227-7346, or in Ca., (8OO) 32t-O372.

Versatile Yellow Gedar

"Yellow Cedar: A Wood of Enduring Beauty," a 6-p. brochure on the wood's diverse uses, including structural decking, paneling, millwork and joinery, boat building, frarning and construction and outdoor and industrial uses, is free from Delta Cedar Products Ltd., (604) 58338 18.

Deck lt Out

A l2-p. catalog of lattice panels, trellises, wood shutters, outdoor furniture, pre-assembled rail sections, fencing and deck accessories in southern yellow pine, cedar and redwood is free from Burton Woodworks, (205) 281-0097.

Recycling Shop

"Starting a Business Recycling Program" and the factsheet "Recycle News" are free from Global Turnkey Systems, (20r) 445-5050.

Delivery Workshop

"How to Improve Your Delivery Operation," a four hour audio cassette workshop with illustrated workbook, is $275 from J.F. Benjamin & Co., (2Ol) 327 -627 2.

Professional Traders

with expertise and a good reputation in specialty lumber products are needed at Cascade Empire Corporation. Our growing company, with current annual sales of $145 million, wishes to double its size within the next five years. If you're interested in a future with a forward thinking company, please respond to Ray B. Haroldson, president, (800) 767-8371. All responses will be held in strictest confidence.

Experienced Lumber Trader

We are Hardwood and Sottwood loo and lumber wholesalers wilh offices in Cinada and the United States. We are seeking sincere, experienced lumber traders who have a view towards the long term. Work fiom your pan of the counfi or from our offices in the Toronto area,

This is an excellent opportunity with a well-established company.

We enjoy an outstanding linancial and marketing repulation.

For complete dehils, please phone or write Bob Wilson in stdct confidence.

Twenty-five (25) words for $21. Each additional word 700. Phone number counts as one word. Address counts as six words. Headlines and centered copy ea. line; $6. Box numbers and special borders: $6 ea. Col. inch rate: $45 camera ready, $55 if we set the type. Names of advertisers using a box number cannot be released. Address replies to box number shown in ad in care of Building Products Digest, 4500 Campus Dr., Suite 480' Newport Beach, Ca. 92660. Make checks payable to Cutler Publishing, Inc. Mail copy to above address or call (714) 852-1990. Deadline for copy is the 20th ofthe month. PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY COPY unless you have established credit with us.

WE BUY surplus, salvage, buy back, odd lot, & misc. building matetials and flooring. Call John Kern, (904) 384-0057 or FAX 904-384-6614, in Jacksonville. Fl.

Wantbd To Buy

All types of building materials, hardware, closeouts, overruns, irregulars and buy backs.

Call

Spencer Parker or Bubbo Morgan 2nds in Building Materials, Inc.

Phone: 615-E99-8203

Fax 615{9-4429

ESTATE SALE: Family owned lumber yard for 43 years. Downtown Wimberely, Texas. 3000 square feet business uea,8765 square foot shed area. Financing available. Gilcrease, (512) 392-5549. Write Box 170, Wimberely, Tx. 786',76.

AT A LOSS for words? Can't find the right card? "Dial a Poem" customized rhymes. Call Timmy the Poet, (213) 928-7808, or send personalized info to Ken Thim, 7507 Finevale Dr., Downey, Ca. 90240. Allow two weeks for completion. $20 payable on performance.

Tracking Gustomers Goes High Tech

Kmart Corp. announced it is the first nationwide mass merchandise retailer to install on a test basis the innovative technology called ShopperTrak.

ShopperTrak, developed by Datatec Industries, is a measuring and reporting technology to provide Kmart store management with minute-byminute customer traffic information. Operating without intervention by store personnel and with no interference in any way with store traffic, ShopperTrak's ceiling-mounted scanners track the number of customers entering and exiting the storc, with the capability to alert store management to the need for additional sales assistance in a specific department or that customers are approaching checkout lanes.

"Fast, efficient customer service is the primary reason Kmart is testing this new technology," said Joseph E.

800 ADA Compliance Hotline

A toll free hotline to provide information on compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act is being serviced by the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association in cooperation with the Small Business Research and Education Council.

Dealers may call (8OO) 947-4646 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (eastern time) for information or referrals to ADA compliance specialists.

Depot Installation Services

Home Depot, which tested an installation service program at 22 stores including Orlando, Fl., and San Diego,

Antonini, Kmart president and ceo. "Our entirc renewal program is based on providing our customers with the service and price they want in attractive stores with efficient, friendly sales associates. This technology will tell us to send additional sales assistance whenever we detect a spocial need in any arca of the storc."

ShopperTrak provides traffic data on a terminal at the front of the storc for quick viewing and action by Kmart managers and other associates and is compatible with Kmart's state-of-theart in-store processing system (KIN il).

"Through ShopperTrak we will not only improve service in the store on a minute-by-minute basis, but we will also be able to compare customer count information with point-of-sale data," said David M. Carlson, senior vice president of Kmart's corporate in-

Ca., units, will expand the program in 1992.

Installation service will be added in a number of other markets this year with a companywide rollout tobecompleted within the next two to three years.

Home Depot Guts Lead Solder

To emphasize theban on lead solder in plumbing used for drinking water, Home Depot willstopselling the material in its plumbing departments.

"We're taking this extra precaution to further protect the public against the inadvertent use of lead solder and as a demonstration of our willingness to act as proactively and responsibly as pos- formation systems. "This will allow us to do several things better-predict customer traffrc, schedule our sales associates, assess the value of specific in-storc advertising-all with the goal of improving customer service." sible," said Mark Eisen, Home Depot manager-environmental marketing.

"Kmart is the first national discount chain to aggressively pursue implementation of this new technology and we look forward to bringing ShopperTrak to Kmart storcs across the counoy," said Christopher J. Carey, presi dent of Datatec Industries.

Kmart Corp. has more than 4,000 retail outlets in all 50 states in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. Cunently operating 2,342 Kmart stores, it's also the parent company of Builders Square, Pay Less Drug Stores, Waldenbooks, Pace Membership Warehouse and The Sports Authority.

Congress passed a law in 1986 banning the use of lead in drinking water supplies and labeling lead solders "not for use in drinking water plumbing." However, Home Depot research and the EPA Hardware Store Education Initiative found that accidental or purposeful misuse could still be a problem.

Call (714) 852-1990