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Moving Forward With World and Main Market

The World and Main Fall Market last week presented retailers with opportunities to connect with each other, meet with vendors and buy products at special prices. The buying show, which is World and Main’s first Houston market since retiring the Handy Hardware name and branding in January, …

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Walmart Asks Suppliers to Drop Certain Chemicals

Chemicals

More consumers than ever are concerned about the chemicals found in everyday items inside their homes. To help relieve customers’ fears, Walmart is taking a stance by seeking to eliminate specific chemicals from thousands of products found on its store shelves. The company recently announced …

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NRHA Abroad: 10 Countries in 12 Months

NRHA Abroad

One backpack and a suitcase – that’s what will hold my entire professional and personal life for the next 12 months. On Saturday, July 30, I board a plane to Lisbon, Portugal with a one-way ticket in my hand. This will …

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Do it Best Surpasses $3 Billion in Sales

sales

Do it Best Corp. recently announced it surpassed $3 billion in total sales for its 2016 fiscal year. Sales for the year, which ended June 25, totaled $3.02 billion, up from $2.99 billion for fiscal year 2015, according to the Fort …

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Brexit and Its Impact on the UK and Beyond

Brexit

After a majority vote to leave the European Union in June, the British exit, or Brexit, is making waves in the global economy. To gain insights into what Brexit means to the U.K. and how it may impact retailers in the …

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Dear Me: Reflections on Careers in Hardware

Reflections

To download a PDF of this story, click here. Then, click here to read letters from a former NRHA publisher and three other NRHA staffers who also took some time to look back and reflect on their time spent working …

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Career Reflections From NRHA Employees

In the August issue of Hardware Retailing, we asked three retailers in different phases of their careers and one retiree to reflect on their time spent working in the independent hardware and home improvement industry. Each retailer wrote a letter to …

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