Spring Has Sprung!

It looks like spring has finally sprung and even though it was an incredibly mild winter, we couldn't be more excited about spring! Our Spring Merchandise Catalog was recently mailed to thousands of our neighbors with a sampling of the more than 67,000 products we have available. The catalog has been a huge hit with many people placing orders in-store or online at www.randys.doitbest.com. Here is a sampling of some of the more popular pages from the catalog:

These are only a couple of the hundreds of full-color pages included in our catalog. We know it's weird to get excited about advertising, but this thing is cool! If you didn't get one in the mail, come down to any of our stores and pick one up. 

Another sure sign of spring around the stores is the addition of our garden plants and we've got 'em! Right now, because it is still often frosting at night, we have onion sets, cabbage, lettuce, kale, strawberries and other cold weather crops. As soon as it gets a bit warmer we'll add all of the fun plants like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, etc. We are also fully stocked with garden seeds and seed potatoes!

Woh!!

It has been a LONG time since this blog was updated and we felt it was about time, even though there isn't anyone yet following us! A lot has been going on in both locations since last post. We are also in the planning stages for our third location. That's right, store number 3 is in the works, but you'll have to stay tuned to find out where.

By clearing out a lot of our obsolete inventory and squeezing things together even more, we were able to make room for another entire aisle of fasteners. The new selection mostly consists of agriculture fasteners and small engine odds and ends, but we also added a large selection of stainless steel bolts and screws!

Woh! That's a big screw. Another great addition to our fastener selection has been a dramatic increase in the number of metric fasteners we're carrying. We hope our new selections will help our customers know where to come for all their fastener needs.

Another great addition to our store has been our recent successes with social media. If you're not already, be sure to friend us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/randyshardware or follow us on twitter @RandysDoItBest. Staying connected to our customers and being available for questions or comments as conveniently as possible is something we are striving for. We're able to give special announcements and run social media only sales to our followers and friends fairly often and we try to make it a worthwhile thing for our customers to do. To date we have 200 Twitter followers and nearly 1800 friends on Facebook! Woh!