It's fair to say Home Depot has changed the face — and shelves — of the hardware business. Between 1990 (a year after Home Depot became the world's largest home improvement store) and 2024, almost ...

Retailer-owned cooperative Ace Hardware has opened more than 100 new stores this year and plans to push the total to 170 by the end of 2023. This rapid expansion pace follows last year’s impressive ...

At Sebastopol Hardware Center, across from a rotating display rack filled with umbrellas and seeds and beneath a display of battery-operated edgers and weed trimmers is a freezer case full of … pies.