The Home Depot Announces Second Quarter Results; Updates Fiscal Year 2017 Guidance ATLANTA, August 15, 2017 -- The Home Depot®, the world's largest home improvement retailer, today reported sales of $28.1 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2017, a 6.2 percent increase from the second quarter of fiscal 2016. Comparable store sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2017 were…

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Not all Home Depot stores are exactly alike, but they each have one thing in common: they’re big. The average Home Depot is around 104,000 square feet in size – meaning there’s 104,000 square feet of empty space sitting on top of each one.Today, the company announced a new use for 50 of its store rooftops: mini solar farms.

John Wright has lived in Atlanta his whole life and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. At 68 years old, he’s seen his fair share of the world, joining the U.S. Marine Corps directly after high school and eventually serving in Vietnam.

As Hurricane Irma makes landfall, The Home Depot is working around the clock to support coastal communities in the path of the storm.

As a young dentist in Long Island, Alvin Goldhush needed new cabinets for his growing practice. This was way before the DIY boom, before e-commerce and large home improvement stores. You couldn’t just go shopping for readymade cabinets, so Alvin did what any enterprising DIYer does: He built his own from scratch.After all, he already knew his way around a drill.

As dangerous conditions continue to threaten communities in Texas and Louisiana, The Home Depot Foundation today pledged $1 million to support Hurricane Harvey disaster relief efforts.

Need something from The Home Depot? Just ask the Google Assistant. The Home Depot will join Google Express this fall, adding the ability for its customers to shop through voice with the Assistant on Google Home, making it more convenient than ever for customers to shop however they want. The Home Depot offers customers flexibility with its 2,282 stores and digital endless aisle. Later this fall…

Over the next two months, thousands of Home Depot associates are stepping out of the aisles and into their communities to give back to veterans across the country. We call it our Celebration of Service.This year, Team Depot has made it easy for you to give back alongside us. Here are five ways you can #CHOOSETOSERVE veterans this fall:

Today, more than 2,000 Home Depot associates rolled up their sleeves to celebrate Veterans Day in the company’s hometown of Atlanta. A sea of orange washed over a parking lot at the Store Support Center as Team Depot volunteers framed the walls of four Habitat for Humanity homes for local veteran families.