I noticed lately that all the remaining HID (MH and HPS) and fluorescent (tubes, CFL, circline and PL) at Lowe’s have been on clearance. I grabbed a circline for my bedroom fixture and a 70 W Lucalox HPS for my NEMA last time. Decided to go again tonight and they were gone. Looked around and everything had been moved to a tall movable cart in another aisle, so grabbed a few more.

My guess they’ll be donating what’s left soon and it’ll all wind up at Habitat. I guess this is it for that selection at Lowe’s.

High wattage incandescents still remain. Oddly some LED circline retrofits on clearance cart as well.

Have you been to any other Lowe's stores if they're doing the same thing? I might check them out soon if this is happening to other Lowe's stores and pick up a few modern HIDs that I might not have yet or as possible spares. I was at one recently and didn't see any HIDs on clearance.

That’s what I’m wondering as well. There aren’t any others nearby to check, but I had thought I heard at other stores they weren’t on clearance.

I remember they clearanced them in the past when switched from the Sylvania brand to GE, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening this time, and then it was all bulbs.

Hmm…seems like a trip to my local store may be in order. I really hope that Lowe’s isn’t getting rid of everything fluorescent. T12 lamps, I could understand. Manufacturers are making them so cheap these days that it’s not even really worth it to buy the new ones. But F32T8 lamps for instance are still widely used and I think the current production ones are still pretty good quality.

Is your state doing any fluorescent/incandescent bulb bans like Colorado has?  We still can purchase HID but CFL/Fluorescent and most incandescent bulbs are banned with only a few specialty allowed.