Hardware stores

[norsen]

The other day I stopped in at our local TRUValue. Saw many kitchen items there I don't see in department store chains, discount stores, fleetfarm types store anymore. Both sizes of the Foley food mills. (I used to make them in another time and place). All kinds of presure cookers. The old sieves on a stand with wood pestles. Wide choice of canning equipment and supplies. The prices didn't look to bad. Compared some to online. Save on shipping at least.
Truevalue is one place you can actually go in and say these exact words. "I need a thingamajig that connects the you know long shiney thing to the dull elbow thing in the bathroom". They know what you are talking about. LOL

[brigid]

I love hardware stores. They are almost like taking a step back in time. The Ace hardware store I used to go to always had tomato and pepper plants out in the front on the sidewalk every spring. It just felt so good to see that because the whoe idea of the earth renewing itself every spring gives you a feeling of a fresh start for everybody, too. I notice how they have all sorts of things for practical use, things you wouldn't find other places. I enjoy old style hardware stores so much.

[K. Slink]

The hardware store in my hometown was everything you could want it to be--wooden floors, rock crystal candy, fireballs, and whatever my father needed to pick up at the time. It smelled wonderful, and always seemed like a safe and warm place to be.

Sadly, it was sold to a mega chain, and the first thing they did was rip up the floors. Now it smells like chemicals and charges higher prices than anyone else around.....

[norsen]

The hardware store in my hometown was everything you could want it to be--wooden floors, rock crystal candy, fireballs, and whatever my father needed to pick up at the time. It smelled wonderful, and always seemed like a safe and warm place to be.

Sadly, it was sold to a mega chain, and the first thing they did was rip up the floors. Now it smells like chemicals and charges higher prices than anyone else around.....

And not many truly quailfied employees. Mostly cashiers, stockers and useless assistant managers.

[K. Slink]

Precisely. Why would anyone want to change a great store like that??? Apparently a very greedy local family decided to jump on the bandwagon, like they didn't own enough already. Shame on them.....