Bernie Marcus, a Home Depot co-founder who tried to coax customers into the first store with dollar bills and helped grow the warehouse-style home supply chain into a retail behemoth — and later funneled his fortune into philanthropy and Republican politics — died Nov.

Bernard Bernie Marcus, who co-founded retail chain the Home Depot Inc., has died, aged 95. The Billionaire, said to be a major donor

Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, died Monday at the age of 95. But it's how he lived that's worth celebrating. Marcus wasn't just one of America's great entrepreneurs and philanthropists.

Bernie Marcus, who came up with a revolutionary business idea in the late 1970s — create a do-it-yourself, big-box suburban outlet that would seem more warehouse than store — and, with a partner, turned it into the Home Depot,

A man of second acts, Marcus started Home Depot after getting fired from another retailer. He then became a philanthropist, a Republican megadonor and an evangelist of capitalism.