
"September is not a peak season for Home Depot, while Christmas at Target is critical," said Greg Melich, a retail analyst at International Strategy & Investment Group LLC. disclosed its breach a week before Christmas, the final critical stretch of the two-month holiday season, the busiest shopping period of the year for retailers like Target.īut Home Depot's disclosure came in September, months after the spring season, which is the busiest time of year for home-improvement chains. In addition to the fact that Home Depot's breach follows a thefts at other retailers, the chain may benefit from timing in another way. But they say there are at least four reasons Home Depot's breach may not matter to shoppers:

To be sure, analysts say it's too early to estimate the impact the breach will have on Home Depot's business because there are many details that are unknown. "With Home Depot, it's like here we go again." "With Target, it was more shocking," said Horn, who lives in Wentzville, Missouri. Yet when she heard the news about Home Depot, she wasn't alarmed. She stopped shopping at Target for two months after its breach was disclosed. "Everybody knows that this is not people's first rodeo." "It's simply not a big issue with consumers," said Craig Johnson, president of retail consultancy Customer Growth Partners, noting that shoppers seem to be almost immune to the breaches now. Industry watchers are betting Home Depot will fare better with its customers. Perhaps the most high-profile of those previous hacks came was at Target, which suffered profit and sales declines after shoppers fled following a breach that compromised 40 million debit and credit card accounts. Home Depot joins a growing list of retailers that have had their data stolen. While the scope of the hack is not yet known, there's speculation that it could be the biggest yet. The nation's largest home-improvement chain on Monday confirmed a theft that could have gone back as far as April and affected customers who used credit and debit cards at nearly 2,200 of its U.S. Make sure to send me a picture of your Scuba Diver costume as an example as well.NEW YORK - Home Depot's data breach could wind up being among the largest ever for a retailer, but that may not matter to its millions of customers.
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If you try out this tutorial and make any improvements feel free to add them to the comments below. Our DIY Scuba Diver Costumes were meant to accompany our mighty sea turtle so we kept them pretty simple. Stick the diving gauge and regulator tubes into the top of the bottle and secure in place with electrical tape. Add one strip of black tape around the tank and over the elastic to hold in place. Cut 2 pieces of elastic so you can wear the tank like a backpack. If your tubing is clear like ours, wrap with electrical tape.Ĭompletely wrap the empty 2 liter bottle with silver duck tape. Slide the tubing into the hole and secure in place with electrical tape. Using a hold punch, create a hole in the sides of the containers big enough to fit the plastic tubing.

Completely wrap the container with electric tape. Optionally add a circle of craft foam to the front of the regulator.

If you’re going to be walking with the flippers on, add elastic straps to go around the arch of your feet.Ĭreate a drawing of a diving gauge and tape onto the bottom side of the plastic containers. For extra credit, stitch or draw lines down the flippers. Attach elastic bands to hold around your ankle and sew in place. I created a paper template to check sizing before making the final cuts.

I found this diving mask and snorkel set on sale at Amazon for a reasonable price.Ĭut flipper shaped pieces from craft foam. To complete the Scuba Diver costumes you’ll need an all black outfit, diving mask, snorkel, oxygen tank, diving gauge, regulator, and flippers.
