Home Depot Braced for Covid Pain—Then Americans Remodeled

Wall Street Journal, Aug. 16, 2020–Sarah Nassauer (subscription)
After lobbying to be open, the big box scrambled to meet demand. Old benchmarks don’t apply, says CEO Craig Menear: ‘None of that has a correlation anymore.’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/home-depot-covid-coronavirus-home-improvement-lockdowns-stimulus-check-remodel-11597426959?mod=hp_lead_pos3