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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
There's fewer and fewer of those hardware stores in the older parts of Toronto too. Owners are dying off with no one to takeover. I'm not huge on squeezing through a hardware hoard. On the plus side, the owners are very knowledgeable; they have parts for everything unlike chain stores which only sell popular items; they seem to know where everything is in their mess.
Amazon now carries parts for just about anything.
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I think the loss of the personal touch will be the biggest tragedy.
Am otherwise indifferent CT/HD employee just can't offer the same knowledge as the old guy working in a local hardware store has.
It'll disappear like the non-upscale coffee & donut places. Maybe we can salvage it by getting some sort of ironic version like they do with dive bars today.
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