ATLANTA, November 16, 2021 -- The Home Depot, the world's largest home improvement retailer, today reported sales of $36.8 billion for the third quarter of fiscal 2021, an increase of $3.3 billion, or 9.8 percent from the third quarter of fiscal 2020. Comparable sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2021 increased 6.1 percent, and comparable sales in the U.S. increased 5.5 percent.

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In the 22 years Aminah Meho served in the United States Air Force, she spent most of her time overseas. “I traveled to 52 countries,” she shares. “I joined because I believe in service to others, and – there is no irony in this – I wanted to travel.”   

To celebrate National Career Development Month, The Home Depot is hosting the first-ever Corporate Career Day. This virtual event takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST and is open to external jobseekers of all levels and career interests.  

Richard Cranford is an Army veteran who served our nation for 24 years. Today, he’s a contact center manager at The Home Depot’s Human Resource Service Center.  Richard was raised in an Air Force family. Born in Taiwan, his childhood was spent traveling overseas where he lived in Europe from ages three to 17. Military communities in the Netherlands, Greece, Belgium and Germany gave him…

In celebration of Giving Tuesday, The Home Depot Foundation is surprising six nonprofit organizations with $30,000 of unrestricted funds totaling $180,000.    As part of the national Operation Surprise campaign, the Foundation’s grants team hosted virtual calls to surprise the following nonprofit partners with the news:  

Jessica Murchison is many things: U.S. Navy veteran, military spouse and mother. She’s also a Home Depot associate who began as a part-time cashier four years ago in Poway, California. Today, she works at our store in South Annapolis, Maryland, as the night replenishment manager. 

Felicia Rives started with The Home Depot in 1996 after graduating from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science. Over the next 25 years, she worked her way up in the technology department, tackling new roles and responsibilities as they arose.  Currently a technology director, Felicia is passionate about empowering others to be their best and being the type of leader she had…

If you’ve ever purchased a gift card, then you’ve already seen how effective Point of Sale Activation (POSA) – our new innovative theft deterrent – can be. Similar to how a gift card must be activated at checkout, POSA requires certain products to be scanned at the register to work.  

As we watch houses come to life with yard inflatables and see apartment balconies twinkle with lights, there’s no doubt that the holidays are finally here. But for Sarah Fishburne, The Home Depot’s director of trend and design,&nbsp