home depot

Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus. They, along with Ken Langone and Pat Farrah, wanted to offer a one-stop shop for people who are do-it-yourself types. In 1979, Home Depot opened its first two retail stores, 60,000 square feet each, in Atlanta, Georgia. Since then, Home Depot's growth has continued at a rapid pace.

As of 2008, Home Depot has approximately 2,000 stores, averaging over 100,000 square feet in size, and can be found in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Home Depot is currently headquartered in Vinings, Georgia.

by Ray Salloom Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “home depot”

• Mount Laurel police investigating credit card fraud at Home Depot

  
  myBCTnow.com — Authority: 157
  Read More...
  2 hours ago

• Mattys Monday Maledictions

  
  The CMSB — Authority: 135
  Its that time again for me to take all of those things that have bothered the hell out of me all week and put them on the site. It helps if you picture me screaming and flailing my arms while I do it, it seems to make it just a hair funnier. So without further ado...1. Why do the F&*%ing Colts get every call, even ...
  4 hours ago

• Unfinished Tele necks - the GFS type

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  Quote: Originally Posted by olaftheholy (Post 2159896) forget gfs necks... invest and buy quality gear! musikraft guitarmill Allparts for all i care but stay away from jays crap! +1
  5 hours ago

• 1959 Fender Esquire build

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  Well last week the guitar arrived in the mail and I picked it up from the post office today. The strange thing was that the box weighed near to nothing. For a short moment I thought this could be an internet purchase gone wrong... the whole package was just sooo light. I came home and opened the box and here are my ...
  8 hours ago

• The Secret Solar $auce

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 666
  “The idea of building a business selling sustainability without having a clearly articulated price competitiveness strategy is a recipe for failure.” That sentence from The Secret Green Sauce is “best practices #1” being used by companies that are making money going green. And it is issue number one for the ...
  8 hours ago

• Neck radiusing router jig

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  Quote: Originally Posted by Nick JD (Post 2159828) Are you sure? At least a Lower radius but the same Radi for sure.
  10 hours ago

• Replacement body with double binding

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  well if you skip the nitro part these guys are next to you & their prices are really good http://www.rockinger.com/index.php?list=WG031
  10 hours ago

• 1950 Double Esquire Build

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  From my experience, if the maple blank is mature and stable and the neck hasnt moved on the first couple of weeks it will not move at all excluding extreme heat conditions... (like forgetting it in the car for a day in the Arizona desert). I dont know what happened with my commercial builds but my own basses never ...
  12 hours ago

• (GPS) Retail Industry – Industry Outlook – Upcoming Holiday Shopping Season

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 164
  Upcoming Holiday Shopping Season With a probable end in sight to a prolonged recession, American consumers are somewhat upbeat about the upcoming holiday shopping season. However, customers remain skeptical at the same time and intend to spend less, compared to previous years before the start of the recession. ...
  14 hours ago

• Sasaffras Tele to begin

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  You can use CA ( super glue) or melt some pieces of binding in acetone and use that as glue, also good at filling any voids.
  15 hours ago

• My first all scratch build a black guard pinecaster

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  Quote: Originally Posted by gagidlof (Post 2157924) I built the body out of pine, actually I pieced together the blank from a salvaged shipping crate, I just couldnt see that wood go to waste. The neck will be maple with a rosewood fretboard. Three saddle bridge with compensated brass ...
  1 day ago

• Homemade Airline Build

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  Also, how the heck are you gonna mount strings on that bridge?
  1 day ago

• Aussie Thinline

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  Sweet , green-and-goldocaster! Howd thecolouring and finishing go?
  1 day ago

• Ok now pickups & hardware...

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  Depending on how much money you have to spend... On the lower dollar end, I put Guitar Fetish (GFS) fatboy pickups on my one of my tele partscasters. They sound great! The neck pup is uncovered, which looks great to my eyes, and changes the sound a lot. My other tele partcaster has a gfs p90 neck pup with a gfs neovin ...
  1 day ago

• FYI on GuitarFetish "New" Stock of Bodies

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  The pickguards are nice!!! haha
  1 day ago

• HELP!!!! My pots arent working!!

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  If your volume doesnt go to zero at full CCW, then your ground connections are suspect.
  1 day ago

• Im going to try and make a couple of necks. (PG-13 - May contain mild profanity)

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  I have a number of things to do today, including my nieces 16th birthday party, s this is probably as far as Ill get today. Using the radiusing router sled, I put a 71/4 inch radius in the fret board, then gave it a quick rub down with 100 grit paper in StewMacs radius block. It took longer to set up the routing jig ...
  1 day ago

• English Sycamore Tele Build

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  I cant believe I did this... I mean I really cant believe I did this , but... I installed the side dots today and (somehow) I got the double dots on the side of 10th fret instead of the 12th fret! Im sure Im not the only one whos ever done this, but for Petes sake what the heck was I thinking! So I drilled out the ...
  1 day ago

• Shaping Fingerboard Blank

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  I am making my first neck for my next Tele. I have the neck template and a piece of curly maple with a maple fingerboard blank. My question is: What is the best way to shape the fingerboard? Should I shape the neck first then glue fingerboard blank to neck and shape it using a router and the neck as the template ...
  1 day ago

• Muds 1st Finish & Build Complete: Ol Piney #1

  
  Telecaster Guitar Forum — Authority: 174
  On the spraying stand, after several coats of ReRanch Butterscotch Blonde nitro: The body did not have the jack hole drilled (I forgive you, my friend!) ... I needed to get a drillpress anyway ... I set this up referring to Jacks photo, worked great (yes, I know, I painted it before I drilled the hole ... ...
  1 day ago

Comments about home depot