Consider Expo, Home Depot's new, upscale shopping experiment specializing in state-of-the-art kitchens and baths and in floor coverings.

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Home Depot is also slimming down, trimming 7, 000 jobs as it exits its Expo home design center business.

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In 2009, it shuttered the underperforming EXPO business, closed 15 underperforming Home Depot stores, and canceled plans to open approximately 50 new stores.

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