We had a real hardware store for over a century but the owners couldn’t find a buyer when they retired. Many times I have gone in with a need like showing them a small bolt and needed a nut and lock washer, they went to their six-sided chest of drawers and pulled them out, generally fitted on the first try, and charged a nickel on the set. Service you don’t get in the capitalist chains and franchises with their prepackaged, more than you will ever need, for a dollar. Give me free enterprise any day.
whiteheron
We had a real hardware store for over a century but the owners couldn’t find a buyer when they retired. Many times I have gone in with a need like showing them a small bolt and needed a nut and lock washer, they went to their six-sided chest of drawers and pulled them out, generally fitted on the first try, and charged a nickel on the set. Service you don’t get in the capitalist chains and franchises with their prepackaged, more than you will ever need, for a dollar. Give me free enterprise any day.