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As crowds gather Saturday morning to watch the Chicago River turn green during the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, a 40-foot True Value paint stick will give the water a stir. The paint stick will be embossed with the line, “The Value …

Yoder’s Shipshewana Hardware has invited customers to a game night Thursday, offering a multi-purpose event at the store. Games and toys are an important category for the Shipshewana, Indiana, store, and hosting the game night is drawing attention to the 3,000 SKUs …

If you’ve started planning your summer promotions while business is slower through the winter months, take a cue from Klem’s in Spencer, Massachusetts. Dogs rule the pool at Klem’s for one weekend in the summer. That weekend is when the store …

For many consumers, staying up to date on the latest trends in home design is easier than ever thanks to social sharing sites like Pinterest. In the March 2015 issue of Hardware Retailing, the editorial team looked at the different …

In the February 2015 issue of Hardware Retailing, we featured retailers who are incorporating locally sourced housewares products into their home improvement stores. The housewares category provides great opportunities to source products made by local vendors and a number of …

When a longtime customer approached Paul Winberg, owner of Winberg’s True Value in Lakeville, Massachusetts, about selling candy bars to raise money for cancer research, Winberg was quick to say yes to the opportunity. “Unfortunately, I think everyone who walks …

Store events are kind of your gig. As an independent retailer, you know how to throw a great store celebration. Each month, Hardware Retailing editors and designers hear about the unique and successful things retailers are doing in their stores. From ladies’ nights to barbecues and …

More than 1,200 people attended House-Hasson Hardware Company’s January dealer market. The independent regional hardware distributor hosted the dealer market in Nashville. Attendance was the highest House-Hasson had seen at a market, and included an increasing number of the Amish and …