Home Depot launches new homegrown app to assist store associates

The Home Depot is rolling out a new, homegrown app developed to help store associates prioritize tasks more effectively. The app, dubbed Sidekick, is a new addition to hdPhones, The Home Depot’s mobile devices dedicated to improving the associate and customer experience. Powered by machine learning, the app guides associates to prioritize the highest demand product, which shelf to restock, and the location of the excess product on overhead shelves. The Home Depot has already installed Sidekick in more than 600 stores and plans to expand deployment to all U.S. stores by the end of the 2022 fiscal year.