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Top 40 / Focus 6
Home Depot History
Store Appearance
The Competition
Product Knowledge
100
40 classes that drive over 60% of the total revenue at Home Depot.
What is "The Top 40"?
100
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"?
100
Store Appearance belongs to this major Home Depot business strategy.
What is "The Big 3"?
100
One of Home Depot's principal competitors, founded in 1946.
What is "Lowes"?
100
If you are running wire to a 15 amp single pole light switch in a domestic application, you typically use this gauge wire.
What is "14 gauge"?
200
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 Six Categories"?
200
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"?
200
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"?
200
The Kyle Home Depot has only made $50,000 in this category for the year. This local competitor that sells the same product does $50,000 every month.
What is Tuff Sheds.
200
True or False: the following brands are all Home Depot owned... Hampton Bay, HDX, EcoSmart, Husky, Vigoro.
What is "True"?
300
The two most consistent Top 40 classes in Electrical (D27), one of which was formerly an Elite Six class.
What are "Wire and Light bulbs".
300
As Bernie Arthur says in Built from Scratch, “At the end of the day, we’re in the _______ business.”
What is the "people" business?
300
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"?
300
This local competitor has 9826 stores and club locations in 28 countries and employs 2.1 million associates.
What is "Walmart"?
300
If a customer is looking for a 3 3/4" diameter parabolic aluminized reflector, they are referring to this.
What is a "PAR 38 Bulb"?
400
One of the plumbing department's most popular Top 40 classes; you might use it when brushing your teeth.
What is "Faucets"?
400
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"?
400
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 are "Clean and Uncluttered Aisles"?
400
One of our largest competitors in paint, event though our Behr Paint is rated number one in consumer reports.
What is "Sherwin Williams"?
400
What customers commonly refer to as "Teflon"(tm) is a registered trade mark of Dupont and is not carried at Home Depot. The actual term is...
What is "polytetrafluoroethylene" or "PTFE" tape?
500
The biggest focus in Garden when it's spring and early summer.
What are "Live Goods"?
500
The current 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, stores in China and stores in Mexico.
What is "2,245 stores"?
500
"If you have time to lean, you have time to _______."
What is "clean"?
500
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"?
500
A combination of polymer resins and premium recycled wood fiber, offering the best of both materials.
What is "composite decking"?