At Turkstra Lumber, a business with 11 locations around Ontario, Canada, the familiar telethon got a makeover. Last October, Mitch MacLellan, social media and marketing director, and Jamie Crickmore, manager of the company’s trim and door division, sat down in …
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Retailer Trio Tops the Radio Charts
Not every retailer gets an audience of a few million consumers at once. But that’s just a regular Saturday morning for Andy Amrhein, owner of Evey True Value Hardware in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. For more than 25 years, every Saturday …
Read More »Whitmore Ace Gets Creative With Power Aisle Merchandising
When Whitmore Ace Hardware got a surplus buy on boxes of disposable rags, director of marketing Laurie Becker saw an opportunity to get creative with merchandising. Instead of just stacking the boxes on a regular pallet display, she challenged managers …
Read More »Discounts Run Deep at United Hardware’s January Market
Retailers attending the United Hardware January 2019 Buying Market started off the new year in a big way with aggressive buying opportunities and programs from their wholesaler to help build transaction size in their stores. One highlight of the market, …
Read More »5 Tips for Finding the Best Employees
When a member of your team decides to leave, finding someone new to replace them can be one of the most difficult tasks you have all year. Your employees are the face of your business. They can make or break …
Read More »Make Employee Training a Key Part of Your 2019 Plans
What are your employee training goals for 2019? Are you planning to grow sales by adding a new niche to your operation? Do you want to appeal to a new customer base, or improve your average transaction size? Whatever plans …
Read More »Fixing Stack-Out Displays
Click the picture to download a PDF of this story. By Jesse Carleton, jcarleton@nrha.org Stack-Out Disaster Look at the photo above. Do you see anything wrong? Anything you would improve? More than likely, you have a solid idea in your head about how …
Read More »Finding a Strategy to Get More Out of Every Day
Click the picture to download a PDF of this story. By Jesse Carleton, jcarleton@nrha.org Defuse the Time Bomb If you’re like most retailers, you know all too well what it’s like to arrive at the store in the early morning hours …
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