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ET todiscuss information included in this news release and related matters. Theconference call will be available in its entirety through a webcast and replayat homedepot in the Investor Relations section.Special Note to EXPO CustomersThroughout the process of closing its EXPO stores, The Home Depot iscommitted to meeting the needs of its customers.The Company will completeany construction projects that have been started.In cases where product hasbeen ordered but the construction project hasn't been started, the Companywill refund the price of installation and the design retainer.The customercan then arrange for their own installation.In cases where a design retainerhas been paid but product has not yet been ordered, the customer will receivea full refund of the design retainer, as well as a 10 off coupon that can beused for a product and services discount at a local Home Depot store.Allspecial orders will be completed.Any back orders will be refunded to thecustomer.Customers with questions should contact their local EXPO or one ofthe Company's call centers at 1-800-259-1042 or 1-800-797-1745.About The Home DepotThe Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer,with 2,274 retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, PuertoRico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico and China. Infiscal 2007, The Home Depot had sales of $77.3 billion and earnings fromcontinuing operations of $4.2 billion The Company employs more than 300,000associates. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard &Poor's 500 index. HDGCertain statements contained herein are forward-looking statements.Forward-looking statements may relate to, among other things, the demand forour products and services, net sales growth, comparable store sales, storeopenings and closures, state of the economy, state of the construction,housing and home improvement markets, reinvestment plans, net earningsperformance, earnings per share, capital allocation and expenditures,liquidity, the effect of adopting certain accounting standards, and the effectof charges and impairments.Such forward-looking statements are based oncurrently available information and current assumptions, expectations andprojections about future events. You are cautioned not to place undue relianceon our forward-looking statements.Such statements are subject to futureevents, risks and uncertainties - many of which are beyond our control or arecurrently unknown to us - as well as potentially inaccurate assumptions thatcould cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations andprojections.Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to:economic conditions in North America and in other countries where we operate;changes in our cost structure; and conditions affecting customer transactionsand average ticket, including, but not limited to, improving and streamliningoperations.Material risks and uncertainties that could cause actual resultsto differ materially from our expectations and projections are described inour Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended February 3, 2008.Such risks and uncertainties include the considerable risks associated withthe current economic environment and possible adverse effects on our resultsof operations and financial condition.Such risks and uncertainties are alsodescribed in the Form 10-Q for our fiscal quarter ended November 2, 2008.Wenote such factors that could cause actual results and outcomes to differmaterially from those contained in any forward-looking statements as permittedby the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.There also may beother factors that we cannot anticipate or that are not described hereinbecause we do not perceive them to be material.

Such factors could causeresults to differ materially from our expectations.Forward-lookingstatements speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake toupdate such statements other than as required by law.ATTACHMENTPLEASE NOTE:NO "ORANGE-BOX" HOME DEPOT STORES ARE CLOSING.The following EXPO, Design Center and YardBIRDS stores are scheduled toclose:EXPOArizona Scottsdale (7000 East Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054)California Anaheim 1011 (N Tustin Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92807) Dublin (7050 Amador Plaza Rd, Dublin, CA 94568) Emeryville (1555 40th Street, Emeryville, CA 94608) Encinitas (1550 Leucadia Blvd, Encinitas, CA 92024) Huntington Beach (6912 Edinger Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92647) Laguna Niguel (25600 Rancho Niguel Rd, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677) Westwood Village (10861 Weyburn Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024) Monrovia (407 W Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016) Redondo Beach (1519 Hawthorne Blvd, Redondo Beach, CA 90278) Roseville (1120 Galleria Blvd, Roseville, CA 95678) San Diego (7803 Othello Avenue, San Diego, CA 92111) San Jose (5095 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118)Florida Boynton Beach (1520 SW 8th Street, Boynton Beach, FL 33426) Davie (8944 State Rd 84, Davie, FL 33324) Miami (5737 NW 7th Street, Miami, FL 33126) Naples (1000 Immokalee Road, Naples, FL 34110) SW Orlando (4601 Millenia Plaza Way, Orlando, FL 32839)Georgia Alpharetta (10700 Davis Drive, Alpharetta, GA 30004) Atlanta - Perimeter (1201 Hammond Drive, Atlanta, GA 30346)Illinois Downers Grove (1021 Butterfield Rd, Downers Grove, IL 60515) Vernon Hills (569 N Milwaukee Avenue, Vernon Hills, IL 60061)Massachusetts Burlington (43 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA 01803)Maryland Bethesda (7111 Westlake Terrace, Bethesda, MD 20817) Columbia (6100 Dobbin Road, Columbia, MD 21045)Missouri Manchester (14205 Manchester Rd, Manchester, MO 63011)New Jersey Bridgewater (744 US Highway 202, Bridgewater, NJ 08807) Paramus (577 Winters Avenue, Paramus, NJ 07652)New York Commack (1 Garrett Place, Commack, NY 11725) New Rochelle (8 Joyce Road, New Rochelle, NY 10801) Westbury (1250 Corporate Drive, Westbury, NY 11590)Tennessee Nashville (2421 Powell Avenue, Nashville, TN 37204)Texas Dallas - Galleria (13900 Dallas Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75240)Virginia Fairfax (11181 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22030)Design CenterCalifornia Concord (1461 Concord Avenue, Concord, CA 94520)North Carolina Charlotte (900 Metropolitan Avenue, Building 1, Charlotte, NC 28204)YardBIRDSCalifornia Concord (5424 Ygnacio Valley Road, Concord, CA 94521) Petaluma (2000 Lakeville Hwy, Petaluma, CA 94954) San Pablo (13901 San Pablo Avenue, San Pablo, CA 94806) San Rafael (1801 4th Street, San Rafael, CA 94901) Alamo (3211 Danville Blvd., Alamo, CA 94507)SOURCEThe Home DepotFinancial Community: Diane Dayhoff, Sr. Vice President of Investor Relations,1-770-384-2666, , or News Media, Ron DeFeo,Director of Corporate Communications, 1-770-384-3179,, both of The Home Depot. With nearly 32 million monthly users in its portfolioof sites, IPM uses search and behavioral data to identify business buyersand retargets ads related to their proven purchase intent while B2Baudiences are still in the active consideration phase of the purchasecycle.Premier web sites such as American City Business Journals' network of morethan 60 sites, SBTV , and StartUpNation are part of the IPM networkfor which they earn incremental revenue in a way that does not cannibalizetheir existing sales efforts. Small and medium sized business owners whovisit the IPM network of sites identify themselves as potential buyersthrough search and navigation behavior. IPM collects this anonymous dataand creates vast audience segments of buyers with common interests andenables marketers to retarget them anywhere across the Revenue Science'sTargeting Marketplace."Our name, Inflection Point Media, says it all.

We help marketers reachbusiness buyers just at the right time to influence their final purchasedecision," says Chris Hulse, the company's Founder and CEO and former VicePresident, Strategic Sales and Business Development for Business . "Inthe current economic downturn, marketers are looking for the mostefficient and effective ways to get their message in front of potentialbuyers at the right time Every ad impression must count. It is importantthat you identify true in-market buyers and not just tire kickers.""There has not to date been an efficient way for B2B marketers to reachlarge segments of known buyers," says Dave Morgan, founder of Real Mediaand TACODA. "Inflection Point Media has the right technology and dataprocessing in place to quickly become a major player in marketing tobusiness owners The IPM team is impressive and experienced. They havefounded a sizeable niche that no one else has yet reached."IPM is being launched by experts who understand the small and medium sizedbusiness marketplace and the unique flow of the B2B purchasing cycle Theyinclude Mr. alone," saysJohn Warrillow, Managing Director of Warrillow & Co., a subsidiary ofCorporate Executive Board, providing advisory services to enterprisecompanies targeting the Small Business segment.