Home Depot opens first self-built store in Mexico

ATLANTA - The Home Depot will open the first ``orange box&#39;&#39; store it has built in Mexico Thursday, the first of four new Home Depots the company will have there by year&#39;s end. <br> <br> The Mexicali store, near El Centro, California, will have 77,000 square feet, about 33,000 square feet smaller than its traditional American stores. It will be the ninth Mexican Home Depot. <br> <br> Home Depot entered the Mexican market in 2001 with its purchase of four Total HOME stores in Monterrey and Mexico City. In March, the Atlanta-based home-improvement retailer purchased the four-store Del Norte chain. <br> <br> The three additional new stores will be in Tijuana, Culiacan and San Luis Potosi.