I went into Home Depot to order new countertops this week, and was impressed to see they have nice widescreen LCD monitors for their kitchen designers. I was less impressed to see them running a massively oversized terminal window into some archaic back-end ordering system.
Still, I figured they must be nice for sketching out layouts and calculating all the costs. Not quite; it’s all still done with worksheets, graph paper, and a hand calculator. And sometimes it’s done twice since different materials are priced by the linear or square foot.
I wonder if Home Depot has an opening in their CIO office; I’d be happy to take a set of granite countertops as a signing bonus 
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