Tag Archives: Checkouts

Each year, the Sugar Creek Fire Department hosts a Fire Protection and Life Safety Open House. And every year since 2007, Rob Walker, owner of New Palestine Hardware in New Palestine, Indiana, serves as a major backer for the event. …

It was 1956 when brothers Lee and Glen Miner opened Miner’s Ace Hardware and Wally Lewis became their first employee. After 66 years of loyal service to the company, Lewis retired at 95 years old. Miner’s Ace Hardware now has …

The staff at Burney True Value Hardware recently reimagined the first six decades of the store’s history through elaborately staged photographs of different time periods and events. The team has been celebrating the store’s 100th anniversary throughout the year, and …

Historic Welcome  Clinton Hardware in Clinton, Maryland, has an eye-catching entry display that introduces customers to the history of the operation.  The business opened in 1946, and the display includes a paint shaker that has belonged to the store since …

This podcast review is the third installment in a bimonthly series Hardware Retailing is publishing to highlight books, podcasts and other resources retailers recommend to fellow business owners in the independent home improvement industry.  P. Brett Thorne is chief operating …