InstructionGroup Description Instructions 1. Read the Home Depot case (at the end of Chapter 2) and some of the additional sources listed below. Please feel free to also search for and read other sources. • BGI Retail, Inc., “Home Depot—Retail Is Detail—Merchandising Experts Team (MET),” YouTube, 10 August 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa08L46voQE. o Cardenal, “Home Depot: Top Quality for the Long Term,” Seeking Alpha, 11 October 2019, https://seekingalpha.com/article/4296180-home-depot-top-quality-long-term • P. Goodfellow, “Lowe’s Fails to Man Up Against Home Depot, Underestimates Menards,” Forbes, 26 May 2015, http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesinsights/2015/05/26/lowes-fails-to-man-up-against-home-depot-underestimates-menards/. • Home Depot Foundation, http://homedepotfoundation.org. • L. Lorenzetti, “Why ‘Buy Online, Pickup in Store’ Isn’t Working for Retailers,” Forbes, 5 November 2015. http://fortune.com/2015/11/05/online-store-pickup 2. Make a “Five Forces” post • Select one of the “Five Forces” items (a – d) that has not yet been selected. To see which items have been selected, please read the discussion posts. • Address the item in a discussion post. • Use the following title for your post - Five Forces - (letter you have selected) Five Forces a. How has the bargaining power between home improvement retailers (Home Depot, Lowes, Menards) and their suppliers changed? b. How has the bargaining power between home improvement retailers (Home Depot, Lowes, Menards) and their buyers changed? c. How has the bargaining power between home improvement retailers (Home Depot, Lowes, Menards) and their substitutes changed? d. How has the bargaining power between home improvement retailers (Home Depot, Lowes, Menards) and potential industry entrantschanged? Attached Textbook Screenshots of Home Depot Case