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On the fourth day of the NRHA New England Road Trip, I made my way to the Golden Eagle Resort in Stowe, Vermont, to get some sleep before my final day of meeting the enterprising retailers who call the region …

After dropping my NRHA colleague Kevin off at the airport Wednesday evening, I made my way to Exeter, New Hampshire. I checked into The Exeter Inn, a boutique hotel that was built in 1932 to host visitors to the Phillips …

On the third day of the NRHA New England Road Trip, my colleague Kevin and I were eager to visit and learn more about two outstanding operations in Massachusetts. We were also excited to reach Boston and enjoy a taste …

To start the second day of the NRHA New England Road Trip, NRHA’s webmaster Kevin Trehan joined me for a few days to help capture the stories of the retailers we’re visiting. He arrived late Monday evening so we could …

After months of planning and coordinating with retailers to finalize all the details of the North American Retail Hardware Association’s (NRHA) latest road trip, the adventure finally began. My name is Renee Changnon and I’m the retail outreach coordinator with …

When you travel, do you have the itch to check out independent home improvement stores? There are many things to can gain from exploring the independent home improvement operations scattered across the country. While friends or family might not always …

Members of generation X are now the most likely group to buy a home to house multiple generations of their families. According to recent research from the National Association of Realtors, about 17 percent of gen Xers (born between 1965 …

Building a Brotherhood On a recent FaceTime call, Raffaelo Cianfaglione gave his friend Brian Kabat glimpses of his store in Norridge, Illinois. “He’s my hardware brother,” Cianfaglione says with a grin. Cianfaglione and Kabat are both independent home improvement retailers, …