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Retail Endangered Species

The main HMV store at Sq One is officially close and have moved to the smaller store on the lower level.

The new location is less than 50% of the original one.
 
Your local hardware store seems to be almost non-existent, at the moment. Your Home Depot, Rona, Lowes, have moved the big box store into areas, almost wiping the hardware store out. Why does one need to hop into their car, travel kilometers, just to purchase a small box of screws, when one could have walked to their neighbourhood hardware?
 
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Thanks for your relevant, on-topic post.
 
W. K. Lis said:
Your local hardware store seems to be almost non-existent, at the moment. Your Home Depot, Rona, Lowes, have moved the big box store into areas, almost wiping the hardware store out. Why does one need to hop into their car, travel kilometers, just to purchase a small box of screws, when one could have walked to their neighbourhood hardware?
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Actually, I believe that the rumours of the death of the neighbourhood hardware store have been greatly exaggerated. They're still around, though their numbers were hurt in the 1990s. I know that Home Depot hardly considers Home Hardware a direct competitor as they serve their niches well: urban neighbourhoods and markets too small for big-boxes. They were hurt in the 1990s when the home improvement big boxes came into fashion, mostly in suburbs, but have been for the most part fine since.
 
W. K. Lis said:
Your local hardware store seems to be almost non-existent, at the moment. Your Home Depot, Rona, Lowes, have moved the big box store into areas, almost wiping the hardware store out. Why does one need to hop into their car, travel kilometers, just to purchase a small box of screws, when one could have walked to their neighbourhood hardware?
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You don't.. but when you need job loads of screws, nails, adhesives and building materials and your neighbourhood hardware store doesn't have them (or can support them), what do you do?

Big box hardware stores (after working at Rona for 6 years) always cater to bigger jobs, no matter how much they advertise for the do-it-yourself-ers.

The Home Hardware stores on Ossington and Roncesvalles don't seem to be hurting and even before the Rona/Lansing merger, the small Lansing stores did very, very well. Even the Lambton store that's tucked behind other buildings does well.
 
DHLawrence85 said:
Bookstores won't be going away any time soon; novels and other small-sized books and periodicals can be put on an iPad or Kindle, but large-format books about art or photography or technical interests will never fit.
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There's also the fact that books can be objects of beauty, not just conveyors of information that can just as easily be drawn forth from the electronic ether. The feel and smell of leather binding, the colour and texture of paper, the darkness of the ink, the indentations on the page caused by moveable type letterpress, the weight of the book ... all these sensual effects that can't be reproduced electronically.

And the price of second hand books is coming down, and their availability - especially in places such as the St. Lawrence Sunday Market, just as happened a decade or more ago when vinyl records and turntables were considered dead.
 
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