April 10, 2024
Power Play: Hardware stores can save $ with Solar and More — April Issue
Sustainability Special Section | Plus Acquisitions, Mergers & New Stores
April 10, 2024
Why Retailers Should Prepare for ‘Right to Repair’
People have been complaining for at least a century about companies that limit who can repair their products—as well as…
April 10, 2024
How to Reclaim Water in a Hardware Store
Chet’s Hardware co-owners Mike Cassidy and Cinde MacGugan-Cassidy moved into their new location in 2020, restoring the historic building that…
April 10, 2024
Increase Foot Traffic With Recycling
Tresa Yada, assistant store manager of Fallbrook Ace Hardware in Fallbrook, Calif., says customers appreciate the ease of recycling batteries. …
April 10, 2024
Charting Success: Orgill Buyers And The New Normal
In an exclusive interview, Hardware Connection talked with Orgill buying executives Jeff Curler, executive vice president of purchasing; Heath Kennedy,…
March 6, 2024
How Tech, Social Media Revolutionize Events
This year, the NHS has implemented a new segmented floor plan to enhance navigation through the exhibit hall along with…
March 6, 2024
Merger Trend Dips Slightly
Craig Webb — This map depicts 2023 acquisitions, new store openings and closures. Locations of construction supply facilities that were…
March 6, 2024
Making Diamond Dreams Come True
By Carly Little — Now, the team is known as the Greene Street Diamond Elite, named after the hardware store’s…
March 6, 2024
Through the Door, Respect Follows
Doug Donaldson By 2018, Bowman became the sole owner and CEO of the Farmington, Minn., lumber company, blazing a new…
