How Home Depot Became the World’s Largest Home-Improvement Retailer | WSJ The Economics Of 

I'm a home rental investor and what I love most about Home Depot is the ability to track all digital receipts purchased from any credit card stored in an account. It saves us so much time from finding and scanning the receipts for tax purposes.

I'm a licensed electrical contractor. I prefer HD simply because they usually have what I need - and not just electrical stuff either. I need shovels, garbage bags, garbage cans, paint, plywood, and a variety of other "things" to make my business work. Home Depot is good to me but I can see how a homeowner/ DIY'er can be frustrated with the store because they do lack in service when it comes to, "hey, what do I need to patch a leaky roof? Or, what size conduit do I need to run power to my shed?" Fortunately I know where everything is and how to use the HD app to find what I need and I very rarely ever speak to anyone inside the store. Lowes? Well, I rarely ever visit Lowes for anything. Also, Home Depot sells Milwaukee Tools and Lowes does not.

Please do more videos on this series.The economics of......... Love them.

Would like to see a series comparing competitors, in this case Home Depot and Lowe's

I believe you have it a bit wrong on why the pro sales have increased. They are not cheaper than specific suppliers, but are larger and have the material. The issue with the supply chain is why HD grew this base. Homes are being built out of HD because it’s the only place you can get material, not for any other reason.

My dad is a GC and it’s wild to me that any homedepot within a 20 mile radius (15 stores) there is always a couple employees that approach him to just have a conversation. I think this is a big aspect a lot of people miss. Employees know their pro customers on a personal level, my father doesn’t have many friends outside of work & I think their are many old school family man immigrant GCs like him. That being said for any bulk purchase he has wholesalers to go to, homedepot mostly for tools and small items.

What bothered me the most in the "early morning" Home Depot ad is that some of them chose to park at the far end of the parking lot even tho it's completely empty

More videos of this PLEASE!

3:43 i like that. Thats the most realistic contractor there lol

But you wanna know what sucks? All this continued growth, without having enough workers to fill that growth.

Love this series - keep it going

Gotta love Craig Menear and his hard work

Wonderful

Nice video.

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My son an Afghanistan war vet got hired at one. He's in 3rd year medical school but home depot allows him to work when he can.

As a pro myself (house flipper) I choose Home Depot over all others.

HD is my second home when I fix/repair my fixer upper. I wished they let me sleep in my favorite sections - lights and gardening 😁

God I love that song. Home Depot keeps spinning up new jingles for 20 years

how? supplying wsj the tools to make work spaces in places

I'd like to see TARGET next!

"Carly the carpenter" LOL

I worked there, they have a real good culture!

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If Home Depot's P/E drops in half it would be an amazing investing opportunity.

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Stocks 40,000 items...and 1 of the 10 items you need are out of stock. I'm talking about pre-covid times. But here in Phoenix HD has the advantage by their number of stores. I would prefer Lowe's but depending where I'm working Lowe's can be a long way away while HD is almost always close.

Great video l, do one on TJX companies next!

Home Depot is a monopoly. Price at HD is just unbelievable.

You'd better be a pro because their associates don't know what they're talking about if you need help. That's what happened at Sears. All the knowledgeable people were let go.

Unionize them!

"try" is key word.

Seems like an extended ad with a hint of competitor smearing.

Why did WSJ just show me a 6 minute (poorly made) commercial for The Home Depot? haha I would love to know what Home Depot paid for this publicity...? =)

I spend big money at Menards.

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But they can’t deliver a $99 grill. Home Depot can kick rocks.

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What about their HR policies against the white Christian

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I was overworked, exploited, harassed and abused by the Home depot management team on 23rd Street in NYC. The Human Rights division followed up my complaints and found that I was right and tge Supervisors resposible were fired however I have never been compensated by Home depot. Years later my incident of filing reports, there was a murder suicide by an employee who shot his supervisor in that same store sadly in the lighting department. I know this store management needs to be held accountable for a lot of problems they cause especially against me when I received a lot of great recommendations through the Voice of the Customer website by Home Depot.

The WSJ makes some of the more nuanced comedy videos on RU-vid.

I frigging LOVE home depot!! It's a manly place!!

It was Pergament before Home Depot came into New York. And Pergament was gone like a bad habit. Pergament started as a real estate venture and owned most of it property. I guess it couldn't compete with a store that was similar to itself.

What? No mention of the 12ft skeleton?!

Need green machine mower

Yeah seeing a lot of people take like sink faucets with calls like for $500 taking them straight up to the return and get a gift card for change to something dating mirabai they need to change their policy when you buy something you can't return it but you got a receipt another day do it with three times breakout but still people take advantage of that

Can’t seem to pay the employees Jack s

This is a commercial

"Over 2300 stores in north america" while showing only stores in the US. Typical.

Menards is king in the midwest

Plumbers go to ferg

Needs unionization.

The dangerous thing about HD or Lowe’s is the mediocre quality components they sell leading an entire generation to think that this is all that is available to the consumer. Go visit a true electrical supply or plumbing house. If you need barely good enough, the big box is for you.

I own two homes and had to buy a new sink, faucet and garbage disposal for the kitchen. All bought at home depot and installed by me in 3 hours!

sell all TWTR stock now

For a professional, home depot beats Lowe's hands down.

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If you're so dominant come to Australia...

Home Depot seems to be a good place to work, at my local store I can think of at least four employees that have been there 20 plus years, they are almost always upbeat and happy to help, I miss the coffee since the scamdemic hit

So this is IKEA of USA

This isn't really an economics of video, you just said that they are a retailer and not much else... I'm pretty disappointed to be honest

And they just bought hd supply

Lowes oven

If a contractor you hired gets all of their main materials at home depot, do look for another contractor.

Lowes over

This is a commercial for a really bad business. You can buy water and Halloween props, but you can't find any of the hardware item that are not top sellers. They concentrate on the most popular 75% of the items in any product line. You always come out unable to finish a project. Plus the prices on many small items are atrocious. I have blacklisted HD.

I personally don't like homedepot, they give people thank you notes for saving them millions of dollars and they fire at will far too often. Pretty terrible place to work a decade ago. I'm sure they are fine now

meanwhile nothing on menards lol

How many lowes ppl watching this?

Buy more from walmart and amazon. HD is a joke of a company today. They were awesome some decades ago. Not anymore. As bad as Lowes.

The economics? They charge customers a lot and in many parts of the country a customer has little choice. $$$ mo' money. Mo' money

Worst service inside the store though

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Not for me! Lowes is so much better.

HD is the same !!!! Americans need to travel and see the world lol they still live in 80s 😂

yeah you buy something with CASH then need to return it UNopened with a the receipt in time! they want to give you a gift card after that I quit going UNLESS LOWES does not have what I need!

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Menards is wayyy better and cheaper.

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not after that woke pamphlet leak. i will NEVER shop at home depot again.

Menards over Home Depot

Deadass they abuse their workers

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Great depression made Lowe an unprecedented pandemic made HD.

HOME DEPOT PRICE GOUGES THE BUYERS .. LUMBER 200 - 300 PERCENT ..

I would like to know why this "largest Home-Improvement Retailer" doesn't have American citizens doing their installation work. I just wanted to have some tile placed in my bathroom and they cannot provide me with 2 English speaking workers to do it. So, is that how they got their reputation as being the largest retailer? With cheap labor?

They also indorse Trump and white nationalist 🤷🏿‍♂️

Menards is better

why does home depot give millions to donald trump?

Isn’t it clear how they became successful…by stuffing their shelves full of cheap Chinese products and undercutting smaller rivals? Like Walmart. We need a video for this?

It should have said the largest chain of home improverment store. During the obama time when US and CH was in the best cozy relationships, the post TARP program had made HD in short supplies due to the super fast rise of home projects. Today, the price is spiral upward because of biden uncontrollable rising inflation. With new prime rate hiking from the fed and more possible t-notes auctions down the line, the economy would be more than likely to fall backward into the reccession bottom. Once the price is hiked, it ain't falling back because the WS says it so! So be the chicago ME. We don't have the super presidents in the modern day anymore. The national presidetial position is saleable as seen in 2016 when trump decided to buy his presidency at $200 M USD. He got the deal!

My life has totally changed since I started an investment of $5,000 and earning over $17,200 every 14 days

Use to spend quite a bit at HD. But after their "gone woke" employee flyer, well, I will now exercise my privilege to drive the extra 1/2 mile to their competitor. Thought they were a home improvement type company, not a social indoctrination company.

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