STIHL Hardware All Stars: Fla., Ga., Hawaii
The 2021 class of STIHL Hardware Store All Stars represent community-oriented, customer-focused, high-performance hardware-and-building-supply retailing at its finest. From each of the fifty United States, HBSDealer recognized an All Star performer.
You can read about all 50 honorees here in the digital issue of HBSDealer. Additionally, HBSDealer.com will highlight a handful of honorees each week, working our way from Alabama to Wyoming. Here, the All Star showcase continues with three more from Florida, Georgia and Hawaii.
Florida
Franks Cash & Carry
The story goes that Frank Schissler III needed a dishpan to make pickles and thought it would be a shame if his rural hometown of Freeport couldn’t provide it. And so began the start of Frank’s Cash & Carry, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary as a hardware business with two locations that sell everything from chicken feed to paint. And a dishpan or two.
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Georgia
Maycrest Hardware
Here is Savannah’s one-stop-shop for the DIYer. Under new owner Kyle Adai, Maycrest Hardware opened a new rental center, engaged in a store renovation and expanded its shelves with thousands of new items. During the transformation, the store maintained its friendly, neighborhood feel. An outdoor kitchen showroom and an impressive selection of Diablo tools are also highlights. Maycrest Hardware enjoys a tradition of serving Savannah since 1960.
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Hawaii
Tanaka Hardware
Tanaka was once renowned for manufacturing tin lunch containers called bento bakos—two-part, round, stackable containers that held rice in the lower container with the main course on top. Today, this All Star is a full-service dealer known around the island as the place that carries “a whole lot of stuff.” Fourth-generation proprietor Lori Tanaka Koga took over as president in 2021.
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