Home Depot investing $11B in stores, tech, workers

Home Depot will spend $11.1 billion in the next three years to invest in faster checkouts, competitive wages, flexible employee scheduling, improving its timeline for merchandise turnover, supply chain efficiencies and other efforts that will adapt the retailer’s shopping experience to today’s consumers, improve service in stores and lower costs. The strategy is meant to prepare Home Depot for future economic slowdowns, after the company struggled following the financial crisis that took place in 2008 and 2009. Read the Fortune story here