Lumber Liquidators (stylized as LUMBER LIQUIDATOR$) is an American retailer of hardwood flooring. It was started in 1993 by Tom Sullivan, a building contractor who began purchasing excess wood from other companies. He then resold the wood from the back of a trucking firms yard in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Three years later in 1996, the company found their niche market in hardwood flooring. On January 5, 1996, the first store opened in West Roxbury, Massachusetts and sold 150 sq ft of floors on the first day. By August they opened up a second store in Hartford, Connecticut.
