According to the New York Post, Home Depot (HD) "executives set targets for store-level employees to boost the amount of money they collected from vendors to cover the cost of damaged or defective merchandise". One employee pointed out that a single store with $40 million in annual sales was taking $100,000 a month in return-to-vendor credits.

Spread across a number of stores that could account for a lot of sales…

and a lot of trouble for Home Depot management.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at douglasamcintyre@247wallst.com. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.