Home Depot and Lowe’s Are Turning Into Software Platforms for Contractors

The retail landscape is showing signs of becoming a platform economy. After staring down the better part of a decade of operational uncertainty, companies are turning to scale as a strategy. That, at least, was the case this most recent quarter for both Lowe’s and The Home Depot , where the two companies collectively indicated that the home improvement sector may be evolving into something structurally different from traditional retail, and even something structurally different than traditional