Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank built Home Depot. It changed retail
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Bernie Marcus, who died last week, reshaped the retail landscape with partner Arthur Blank. Their vision? To have everything a customer needed for a home improvement project.

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution News:

Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus (left) and co-founder Arthur Blank in 1997. They werent the first to build a big box store. They werent even the first to have a home improvement chain. But their retailer won ever-greater market share by aggressively marketing itself as a one-stop shop for sales and rentals to both do-it-yourselfers and pro contractors.