HOME DEPOT TURNS STORES INTO MINI DISTRIBUTION CENTERS
Monday, August 29, 2016 at 11:50AM The Home Depot announced a 6.6% increase in revenue and a 9.3% increase in net profit to $2.4 billion.
The retailer stated that customers are taking advantage of their new options for retrieving their ecommerce orders. In the second quarter, about 42% of Home Depot’s online orders and almost 90% of its online returns were handled by its stores. 
Ecommerce sales were just 5.6% of Home Depot’s sales in the second quarter, but were up 19% from a year ago, showing significantly higher growth in sales than in-store. Home Depot is choosing now to invest in infrastructure and order management software to address ecommerce fulfillment from their stores. Online purchases can now be delivered from over 700 stores, faster and with shorter scheduled-delivery windows than possible before.
Source: Wall St. Journal