I've also noticed what I call pitiful stock of lights and stuff. I bought 64 boxes of new LED C3s 50 bulbs from HD using the $3 off coupon and am replacing 32 strings of minis on my mega tree. They had a 3 yr written warranty in the box, the colors are nice and bright. At 50% off they would have been $1 cheaper assuming they still had them, but in the meantime I get to use them for this years display. Now the only quantity of minis left for me are in my mini trees and arches. Eventually I will go all LED on those as well. I don't understand the Lowes comments, they marked there lights and other stuff to 50% off way before Christmas and at the 3 stores I checked, they were basically sold out before Christmas. The dept manager I spoke with said that they won't go to 50% off this year until after Christmas per instructions from Corporate.