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The Home Depot by our house is pretty good, too. When we were re-doing our basement floor several years ago, the guy in the flooring section was very helpful in providing instructions on how to prep the cement floor for the vinyl tiles we were installing. It's been at least 12 years, and not one...

Hopefully your store will have a younger family member willing to take things over, but the two stores I referred to had been in business for even longer -- S&W Hardware for over 60 years, and Saxton Lawn & Garden for 84 years. And the town I live in still has a lot of successful small...

The issue your mom and pop store will run into eventually is when "mom and pop" want to retire. No one else will come in and buy the business to compete with the big boys. We had two local stores -- one hardware store and one lawn and garden center (sold and repaired lawn mowers and snow...

I saw the oddest "celebrity" product this past weekend. While we were in a K-Mart in northern Michigan, I walked past a Jacklyn Smith Christmas tree. What does Jacklyn Smith have to do with Christmas trees?. I wondered why anyone would care about having a Jacklyn Smith tree and how much extra...

Since when did you ever expect to find truth in advertising from any company? A commercial or advertisement's purpose is to get the viewer/reader to feel good about the product or company in order to generate business -- nothing more.