Ideas and crazes come and go; companies are bought and sold.
The recent news that Home Depot will be selling off their HD Supply unit and Hughes Supply came as no shock to me, because I, as an HVACR professional now retired, have been in their stores looking for an occasional part, and I was very disappointed. So, selling parts that require a license to purchase them out of a store for consumers just doesn’t work. And purchasing a supply house chain doesn’t mean that you know how to run it, for the philosophies are very different.