Stopped by the old hardware store in my hometown and saw something that hit different

They cleared out the whole wood section and replaced it with a wall of those flat-pack furniture kits. I remember going there with my dad in the 90s to pick out real oak planks for a bookcase. Does anyone else miss when a hardware store actually felt like a place for building things?

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price.alice21d ago

My local garden center just swapped all their seed packets for those pre-made patio kits. It feels like every store is turning into a showroom for stuff you just assemble, not make. The actual parts and pieces are getting harder to find.

rowank6920d ago

Yeah, that shift to pre-made kits is everywhere. I started looking for local seed swaps and buying direct from small online nurseries, which worked way better. You just have to skip the big stores now.