As the pandemic struck, the world’s largest home improvements chain, with over 2,300 stores across the U.S., pivoted quickly from a mostly bricks-and-mortar approach to one in which it started treating its mobile app and the internet as its “front door to stores.”

The Home Depot launched curbside pickup with DataStax during the pandemic in <30 days, leading to 100% increase in digital platform sales. Fahim Siddiqui, CTO at Home Depot, talks about e-commerce trends and digital transformation for the retailing giant.