I'll be slinging hot dogs at Ace Hardware Customer Appreciation Day


 
My payment, besides have a good time hobnobbing with customers, was a frozen strawberry rhubarb pie for my wife.

Are you guys aware of hardware store frozen pies? My brother's store sells a ton of them, a real impulse purchase at checkout. “It’s usually one of our top 100 items every day," he says. "It’s a very lucrative, profitable item.”

They're quite good and are sold at many Ace Hardware stores in Sonoma County. The supplier provides the graphics-wrapped chest freezer for free (with clear lid so you can see the pies inside) and keeps it stocked with pies. The hardware store just sells them...actually, they kind of sell themselves.

We gave away samples at the Customer Appreciation Day event, and lots of folks just came for the pie!

I just learned something. Need to find a real hardware store.
 

 

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