NYPost- Bernard Marcus, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who rose from a tenement in Newark, N.J., to create one of the world’s biggest and most recognizable brands, the Home Depot Corp., died late Monday at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 95.
Marcus’ death was confirmed by an official at his nonprofit group, the Job Creators Network, who said he died of natural causes.
Marcus is best known as one of the founders of Home Depot, teaming up with financier Ken Langone and businessman Arthur Blank to create from scratch a company that employs nearly a half-million people working in thousands of stores across the country.
“The entire Home Depot family is deeply saddened by the death of our co-founder Bernie Marcus,” a Home Depot spokesperson told The Post. “He was a master merchant and a retail visionary. But even more importantly, he valued our associates, customers and communities above all.” more
We’ve lost a good man who did a lot of good for a lot of others. Bernie M. RIP
A great man who was blessed to have lived to 95.
I remember shopping at the new HD decades ago when the store was open 24/7.
Times change.
When their store manager, my friend, told me how they never prosecuted POCs for BRAZEN shoplifting, at the cost of 10s of thousand$ per week at that one store(!), the bloom was off the rose.
I still shop there, and at Lowes, but they never match Menards.
RIP Mr Marcus,
your HD stock made another friend of mine very very wealthy back in the 90s. I wish I had money to invest back then.
Someday I wanna die of too many birthdays too!
RIP Sir. You left a legacy.
You can never have too many birthdays, my dad was almost 89, my mom was just short of 93 and my dad’s oldest brother was 99 and a half living from Sept. 1918 (two months shy of the end of World War 1) until March 2018. I plan on sticking around for at least 20 or more years or so and I feel like a youthful 71 except for the usual aches and pains of growing older. I don’t feel like I’m an old geezer yet and I want to keep it that way. I’ve still got a lot of life to live.
He/’s going to be buried in a hand-made coffin.
Well, at least Carter lived long enough to see Harris lose.