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Spring will be here before you know it, and it’s time to start thinking ahead for some promotions you can try in your store once the warm weather arrives. Get Out the Grill. It’s time to start grilling. Let your …

Your store may host events already, but are any of them catered to your professional plumbing customers? A-1 Irrigation Do it Best Hardware in Valley Center, California hosts a customer appreciation day once a year for their plumbing customers along …

When wildfires swept through Northern California in September, customers knew to turn to Pedrotti Ace Hardware if they wanted to help victims. Owner Gene Pedrotti had set up a charitable trust several years ago to match shoppers’ donations to Red …

HomCo Lumber & Hardware’s annual horseshoe competition is part family reunion, part feast and part fundraiser. The Flagstaff, Arizona, store uses its Shoes ‘N Brews event to raise money to help local families whose children have serious illnesses, but also …

One local retailer has gotten a taste of Hollywood. Last fall, Papa’s Hardware in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, was the site for an independent movie being shot in the area. The movie, titled “The Fixer Upper,” features a couple who buys and …

Blake Burgess is always looking for ways to get his customers more involved on his store’s Facebook page. A couple of years ago, Burgess, co-owner/general manager of York Ace Hardware in York, Nebraska, discovered contests are a great way to …

Social media is now part of every aspect of many people’s lives. In fact, more than half of all adults use more than one social media platform, according to Pew Research Center. To keep up with consumers’ engagement with social media, more than 90 …

The idea came from a customer who brought a photo album into Horicon Hardware Hank to show off pictures of a room she remodeled. The customer had bought her paints and other products from the Horicon, Wisconsin, store, and was …