Home Depot's Customer Transactions Have Fallen for 5 Straight Quarters
Receipts keep getting bigger, customer transactions keep slipping -- and the next test comes Tuesday.
Home Depot, the prominent home improvement retailer, has experienced a decline in customer transactions for the fifth consecutive quarter. Despite growing fiscal first-quarter sales by 4.8% year-over-year to $41.8 billion and maintaining its full-year guidance, comparable customer transactions dropped by 1.3%. This trend highlights that the company's revenue growth is not driven by an increase in transactions, but rather by higher receipts and strategic acquisitions.
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