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.
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