For years, Lowe's has been playing catch-up in the B2B space. The professional and institutional customer base is a more predictable revenue stream with bigger order sizes and recurring demand that has a more stable footprint. Lowe's needed another big step because Home Depot already was reaping the benefits of its 2020 purchase of HD Supply. The latest deal, which does exactly that by giving the B2B playfield a boost to fuel its B2B growth strategy, and as fast as Amazon wants to, Home Depot in high margin, is another smack 'em up from Amazon.