The Home Depot

The Home Depot is a chain of 2,291 home improvement warehouse stores in North America. The first three Home Depot stores opened in the Atlanta area in 1979.

Store history
The first four Home Depot stores were all located in Georgia, with the next four opening in south Florida in 1981. With the acquisition of Bowater Home Centers in 1984, the chain grew from 22 to 31 locations and entered the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Home Depot's store footprint in the United States grew rapidly throughout the first three decades of the chain's history, but since the in the late 2000s, it has remained steady at just under 2,000 stores. The company began to expand internationally in 1994 with the acquisition of in Canada. Home Depot also expanded into Mexico in 2001, and previously operated stores in Chile (1998–2001), Argentina (2000–2002), and China (2006–2012).