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Walmart's New Health Food Push: Is It Too Hard to Swallow?Improv Everywhere led 225 pranksters in a slow motion and stationary mock shop at a Home Depot in New York City. Rick Munarriz of the Motley Fool, suggests the shop stoppage was meant to call attention to the slow motion of Home Depot's recent financial peformance and continued fall out from CEO Nardelli's ubermensch behavior at the annual meeting in May. In its second quarter earnings report in early August, Home Depot suggested to shareholders that the second half of 2006 would not contain upbeat financial news. And this was before a couple thousand news stories about the real estate slowdown in many parts of the country. Investors who are curious to see what several hundred people look like doing nothing in a Home Depot aisle can view a video of the prank on YouTube. Apparently, more than 325,000 people with waaaaaay too much time on their hands have done exactly that.
But video may play a more important role in Home Depot's strategic plan in the near future.
There is as of yet no word on whether the programming will be available in languages other than English. Nor whether the programs and videos will eventually be available in an on-demand format. But if the video instruction channel works well, look for an expansion of the site into Home Depot DIY U.
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9-20-2006 @ 7:47AM
Don Wenzel said...
I can't under stand how a company as large as Home Depot can treat customers so poorly. I signed my roofing contract on 9-14-05, Home Depot has now installed three roofs on my house and are getting ready to install the fourth one. They pay their contractors as little as possible and that is why they get poor quality contractors. Home Depot does not return phone calls, emails or letters for weeks or never. When you see my web page you can see the distruction they do to peoples lives and property. When you search the internet for "poor customer service from home depot" you can read for days, how do they get away with this?
http://www.freewebs.com/myroof
Thank you,
Don Wenzel
Oxford, Michigan