Economics
Are hardware stores facing a fight for survival?
After Coopers, yet another hardware store - Elmers Hardware - announces it is shutting up shop.
Are independent hardware stores fighting for their existence?
Bruce Salter, from The Handyman, a store in Eye that stocks "a little bit of everything" – from metal bins to paper clips – observes
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