Floor & Decor

public flooring and hard-surface home-improvement retailer

Floor & Decor

Industry Retail

A public home-improvement retailer specializing in flooring, tile, stone, installation materials, and related design services. Floor & Decor supplies durable home materials, but shareholder governance, supply-chain footprint, adhesive and flooring-chemical exposure, and renovation-consumption pressure keep it low-scoring.

Why this matters: Floor & Decor fills a flooring and renovation-materials gap beside Home Depot, Lowe's, Menards, IKEA, Wayfair, and Sherwin-Williams.

Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 3* D - Extractive

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material14
Bonus+1
Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2
After Cap15
Penalties-12
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Evaluation Overview

D - Extractive

The score turns mainly on Product Integrity, with the largest penalty coming from Ecological Harm.

Strengths

  • Product Integrity3/5
  • Extraction2/10
  • Market Conduct2/5

Penalties

  • Ecological Harm-4
  • Toxic Products-2
  • Accountability Opacity-2
  • Surveillance Capture-2

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims25
  • Direct axis claims16
  • Coverage16/16

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
1 / 10

Floor & Decor is controlled through shareholder, private, family, or executive ownership rather than worker, customer, supplier, tenant, renter, or community ownership.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor is controlled through shareholder, private, family, or executive ownership rather than worker, customer, supplier, tenant, renter, or community ownership. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
1 / 10

Floor & Decor does not give customers, workers, suppliers, local communities, or affected households binding democratic authority over governance.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor does not give customers, workers, suppliers, local communities, or affected households binding democratic authority over governance. [2]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
2 / 10

Floor & Decor sells useful goods or services through a conventional retail, rental, distribution, or industrial-supply model that routes surplus through owners, executives, or public shareholders.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor sells useful goods or services through a conventional retail, rental, distribution, or industrial-supply model that routes surplus through owners, executives, or public shareholders. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
1 / 7

Floor & Decor appears to rely on ordinary retail, warehouse, delivery, branch, or service employment rather than worker control, co-determination, or durable labor veto power.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor appears to rely on ordinary retail, warehouse, delivery, branch, or service employment rather than worker control, co-determination, or durable labor veto power. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
1 / 7

Floor & Decor receives limited credit where it provides practical goods or services used by workers and households, but it is not organized around unemployed people, exits, or broad nonworker power.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor receives limited credit where it provides practical goods or services used by workers and households, but it is not organized around unemployed people, exits, or broad nonworker power. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
1 / 7

Floor & Decor has practical utility, but the record does not show durable willingness to absorb major losses for workers, customers, suppliers, or communities when doing so conflicts with commercial goals.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor has practical utility, but the record does not show durable willingness to absorb major losses for workers, customers, suppliers, or communities when doing so conflicts with commercial goals. [6]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
2 / 5

Floor & Decor provides widely useful goods or services, while pricing, loyalty, rental, contractor, credit, add-on, or procurement systems still shift power toward the seller.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor provides widely useful goods or services, while pricing, loyalty, rental, contractor, credit, add-on, or procurement systems still shift power toward the seller. [7]
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
3 / 5

Floor & Decor sells products or services with real practical utility, but quality, safety, durability, emissions, toxicity, or add-on economics remain important constraints.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor sells products or services with real practical utility, but quality, safety, durability, emissions, toxicity, or add-on economics remain important constraints. [8]
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
2 / 5

Floor & Decor benefits from scale in availability and logistics, but scale also concentrates supply, procurement, customer data, and local market power.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor benefits from scale in availability and logistics, but scale also concentrates supply, procurement, customer data, and local market power. [9]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Ecological Harm
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Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale, including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
-4

Floor & Decor participates in material-intensive retail, rental, industrial supply, logistics, construction, equipment, or vehicle systems with meaningful ecological footprint.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor participates in material-intensive retail, rental, industrial supply, logistics, construction, equipment, or vehicle systems with meaningful ecological footprint. [18]
Toxic Products
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Current sale of products whose ordinary use, exposure, ingredients, residues, packaging, or formulation creates toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety risk. Food products receive at least light scrutiny for artificial colors, artificial flavors, petro-derived additives, pesticide residues, contaminants, endocrine-disrupting packaging, and ultra-processed formulation. Ordinary adult nightlife or alcohol service is not penalized by itself without evidence of predatory marketing, youth targeting, addiction-extractive design, or unusual product-safety misconduct. Range: -5 to 0.
-2

Floor & Decor sells, rents, distributes, or supports product categories that can include chemicals, fuels, solvents, treated materials, pesticides, machinery, batteries, combustion equipment, or other toxic or safety-risk goods.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor sells, rents, distributes, or supports product categories that can include chemicals, fuels, solvents, treated materials, pesticides, machinery, batteries, combustion equipment, or other toxic or safety-risk goods. [19]
Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

Floor & Decor provides basic corporate and privacy disclosures, but ordinary customers cannot easily inspect supplier power, markups, product toxicity, data sharing, rental economics, or environmental costs.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor provides basic corporate and privacy disclosures, but ordinary customers cannot easily inspect supplier power, markups, product toxicity, data sharing, rental economics, or environmental costs. [22]
Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Floor & Decor retains conduct relevant to the this penalty: where brand, lifestyle, rural, DIY, pro-contractor, home-design, or moving-self-reliance identity becomes part of the customer capture model.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor retains conduct relevant to the this penalty: where brand, lifestyle, rural, DIY, pro-contractor, home-design, or moving-self-reliance identity becomes part of the customer capture model. [23]
Surveillance Capture
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Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
-2

Floor & Decor privacy materials describe collection, sharing, analytics, advertising, app, loyalty, transaction, location, vehicle, biometric, or device data practices.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor privacy materials describe collection, sharing, analytics, advertising, app, loyalty, transaction, location, vehicle, biometric, or device data practices. [24]
Ideological Disavowal
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Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Floor & Decor is penalized where ordinary retail, logistics, or distributor language presents commercial and supply-chain choices as neutral necessity while downplaying power, environmental, labor, or data tradeoffs.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor is penalized where ordinary retail, logistics, or distributor language presents commercial and supply-chain choices as neutral necessity while downplaying power, environmental, labor, or data tradeoffs. [25]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
1 / 3

Ordinary users receive unusually fair value, durability, access, or surplus.

Linked evidence
  • Floor & Decor receives some credit where the service or product mix gives customers practical value, broad availability, low entry prices, or repair/self-help capacity. [12]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 78/100

25 verified linked claims 16 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 16/16 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 13/20

25 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

16 direct claims across 16 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

16/16 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Floor & Decor is controlled through shareholder, private, family, or executive ownership rather than worker, customer, supplier, tenant, renter, or community ownership.

Ownership Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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2Floor & Decor does not give customers, workers, suppliers, local communities, or affected households binding democratic authority over governance.

Governance Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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3Floor & Decor sells useful goods or services through a conventional retail, rental, distribution, or industrial-supply model that routes surplus through owners, executives, or public shareholders.

Extraction Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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4Floor & Decor appears to rely on ordinary retail, warehouse, delivery, branch, or service employment rather than worker control, co-determination, or durable labor veto power.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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5Floor & Decor receives limited credit where it provides practical goods or services used by workers and households, but it is not organized around unemployed people, exits, or broad nonworker power.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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6Floor & Decor has practical utility, but the record does not show durable willingness to absorb major losses for workers, customers, suppliers, or communities when doing so conflicts with commercial goals.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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7Floor & Decor provides widely useful goods or services, while pricing, loyalty, rental, contractor, credit, add-on, or procurement systems still shift power toward the seller.

Market Conduct Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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8Floor & Decor sells products or services with real practical utility, but quality, safety, durability, emissions, toxicity, or add-on economics remain important constraints.

Product Integrity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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9Floor & Decor benefits from scale in availability and logistics, but scale also concentrates supply, procurement, customer data, and local market power.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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10The available public record for Floor & Decor does not show unusually strong protection for worker, customer, supplier, or public dissent beyond ordinary corporate channels.

Openness To Dissent Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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11The available public record for Floor & Decor does not show unusual civil-liberties protection or constitutional-spirit practice beyond normal commercial compliance.

Constitutional Spirit Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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12Floor & Decor receives some credit where the service or product mix gives customers practical value, broad availability, low entry prices, or repair/self-help capacity.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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13Floor & Decor does not provide unusually clear public cost, margin, markup, fee, rental, or surplus-allocation transparency for ordinary customers.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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14The available public record for Floor & Decor does not document a rare non-punitive anti-mobbing or anti-scapegoating institutional practice strong enough for this bonus.

Anti Scapegoating Culture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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15Any positive conduct by Floor & Decor is at least partly vulnerable where it depends on private, family, founder, or executive discretion rather than locked stakeholder governance.

Reversibility Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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16The available evidence for Floor & Decor does not describes conduct considered under Human Harmd elsewhere.

Human Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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17The available evidence for Floor & Decor does not show direct institutional coercive violence, detention abuse, armed repression, or violent domination.

Coercive Violence Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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18Floor & Decor participates in material-intensive retail, rental, industrial supply, logistics, construction, equipment, or vehicle systems with meaningful ecological footprint.

Ecological Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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19Floor & Decor sells, rents, distributes, or supports product categories that can include chemicals, fuels, solvents, treated materials, pesticides, machinery, batteries, combustion equipment, or other toxic or safety-risk goods.

Toxic Products Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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20The available evidence for Floor & Decor does not show a primary business model based on direct youth manipulation or youth-culture monetization.

Youth Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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21Floor & Decor retains conduct relevant to the this penalty: where membership, rental add-ons, storage autopay, credit, loyalty, or recurring-payment systems create inertia or cancellation-friction risk.

Subscription Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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22Floor & Decor provides basic corporate and privacy disclosures, but ordinary customers cannot easily inspect supplier power, markups, product toxicity, data sharing, rental economics, or environmental costs.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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23Floor & Decor retains conduct relevant to the this penalty: where brand, lifestyle, rural, DIY, pro-contractor, home-design, or moving-self-reliance identity becomes part of the customer capture model.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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24Floor & Decor privacy materials describe collection, sharing, analytics, advertising, app, loyalty, transaction, location, vehicle, biometric, or device data practices.

Surveillance Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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25Floor & Decor is penalized where ordinary retail, logistics, or distributor language presents commercial and supply-chain choices as neutral necessity while downplaying power, environmental, labor, or data tradeoffs.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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