Top 25/Focus
25 classes that drive over 60% of the total revenue at Home Depot.
What is "The Top 40"?
In the late 1970s, these two business partners created a Home Improvement warehouse that has gone on to become the world's leading home improvement retailer, known today as The Home Depot.
Who are "Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank"?
The first step in running a great looking department.
What is "Shelf Maintenance"?
One of Home Depot's principal competitors, founded in 1946.
What is "Lowes"?
This 6207 department supervisor has the longest tenure with the company of all supervisors.
Who is "Kelly"?
The principal driving categories in each Home Depot division selected based on seasonality and historical sales trending to focus attention on for capitalizing on sales opportunities in each store.
What are the "Focus Classes"?
This company revolutionized the home improvement industry by bringing the know-how and the tools to the consumer and by saving them money.
What is "The Home Depot"?
The catchphrase term for how internal Home Depot associates referred to merchandising practices in the 1990s.
What is "Stack it High and Let it Fly"?
This competitor sells discounted hardwood flooring.
What is "Lumber Liquidators"?
The Manchester Home Depot opened in this year.
What is "1991"?
The two most consistent Top 25 classes in Electrical (D27), one of which was formerly an Elite Six class.
What are "Wire and Light bulbs".
As Bernie Arthur says in Built from Scratch, “At the end of the day, we’re in the _______ business.”
What is the "people" business?
One of the more prevalent detractors to a clean shopping environment at Home Depot, this ubiquitous foe contains small amounts of plant pollen, human and animal hairs, textile fibers, paper fibers, minerals from outdoor soil, human skin cells, the remains of burnt meteors and many other materials which may be found in the local environment.
What is "dust"?
This competitor owns brands such as Purdy and Thompsons.
What is "Sherwin Williams"?
The department with the highest overall sales in 2019.
What is D28?
One of the plumbing department's most popular Top 25 classes; you might use it when brushing your teeth.
What is "Faucets"?
This year marked the celebration of Home Depot's 100th store opening, as well as the year that the USSR's Phobos II entered Martian orbit.
What is "1989"?
Shipping boxes, pallets, rolling racks, shipping materials....anything needed for the operation of the store should be out of site or neatly stored away from the traffic flow in the store... this is all part of this section of the VOC Survey.
What is "Neat and Clean"?
One of our largest competitors in paint, event though our Behr Paint is rated number one in consumer reports.
What is "Sherwin Williams"?
What is "1.71%"?
The biggest focus in Garden when it's spring and early summer.
What are "Live Goods"?
The approximate number of Home Depot retail stores: including stores in the U.S. and the territories of Puerto Rico, U.S Virgin Islands, Guam, stores in Canada.
What is "2,200 stores"?
"If you have time to lean, you have time to _______."
What is "clean"?
This concept of this competitor was laughed at in the 1990s, and didn't exist at all in the 1980s. They are now the leading seller of power tools in the world.
What is "Amazon.com"?
The number 1 selling subclass in the store for 2018.
What is "Interior Paint"?