Sports: RE: [DucatiST] Re: Merry Christmas From Floyd, Virginia.

Lowe's, Home Depot and Builders Square (now defunct I think) really put the pressure on the local home owned hardware stores. The last one in our area closed it's doors just this year...but part of that was the owners retiring. It was a neat store to wander around in!

Merry Christmas everybody! Hopper

--- On Fri, 12/23/11, Ian Ellison <ian@ianellison.org.uk> wrote:

From: Ian Ellison <ian@ianellison.org.uk>
Subject: RE: [DucatiST] Re: Merry Christmas From Floyd, Virginia.
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, December 23, 2011, 4:52 AM

> I've got to say that in my experience, US hardware stores knock spots off
UK
> ones. I always wonder how they can hold such wide stocks and still make a
> living...

The British ones have suffered at the hands of big DIY chains. There are
still a few good ones like Gills in Oxford where you can buy a handful of
nails or copper washers loose, not in overpriced blister packs.

IanE