Adventures in Marketing: When They Say Full Service, Home Depot Means Full Service

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The above Home Depot sign surfaced yesterday on Reddit without any context or provenance, but one commenter weighs in: "I've always wondered why EVERY home depot in the USA has the exact same hand written signs... do they train their how to write in the 'home depot' script?"

Anyway, the photo's downright vintage: in 2009 the home-improvement chain replaced its "You can do it. We can help" slogan seen here with "More Saving. More Doing."

· No thanks, I'm a big boy [Reddit via The Jane Dough]

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Home Depot Co-Founder, On Obama:: "His speeches are wonderful. His output...

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, July 25, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

"His speeches are wonderful. His output is absolutely, incredibly bad. As he speaks about cutting out regulations, they are now producing thousands of pages of new ones. With just ObamaCare by itself, you have a 2,000-page bill that's probably going to end up being 150,000 pages of regulations." —Bernie Marcus, who co-founded Home Depot in 1978. [Investors Business Daily via Buzz Feed]

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