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Hardware Retailers Refuse to Open on Thanksgiving

Hardware retailers were among store chains making a point to keep their businesses closed on Thanksgiving this year.

Home Depot and Ace Hardware both announced via social media that their stores would be closed on the holiday.Depot_Old

Home Depot asked its Twitter followers to “Take time to enjoy food, family and friends.” Ace Hardware made this statement on Facebook:  “We understand Thanksgiving Day is becoming an increasingly big ‘retail day’ — but some things are just more important than money.”

Click here to read an article from NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans about these and other retailers that chose to stay closed on Thanksgiving.

About Kate Klein

Kate is profiles editor for Hardware Retailing magazine. She reports on news and industry events and writes about retailers' unique contributions to the independent home improvement sector. She graduated from Cedarville University in her home state of Ohio, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and minored in creative writing. She loves being an aunt, teaching writing to kids, running, reading, farm living and, as Walt Whitman says, traveling the open road, “healthy, free, the world before me.”

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