The retailer-owned company is holding its own against the big-box superstores. Don’t worry: Ace Hardware just fine (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The retailer-owned company is holding its own against the big-box superstores. Don’t worry: Ace Hardware just fine (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Every time he gets on an airplane wearing his gray Ace Hardware work shirt, Ray Griffith hears expressions of concern. Fellow passengers always want to know if the venerable cooperative is managing to get by in the face of competition from ever-proliferating home-improvement superstores. It’s a question that Griffith, Ace’s chief executive officer, says he finds almost embarrassing - because the …