Wadler Bros. Home Center

In the 100th post on the Retail Regents Blog, I felt it would be better posted on another large hardware store. Let's head down to Fleischmanns, NY shall we?

This massive store is located off New York Route 28 outside of Fleischmanns. The business has served the area since 1959, but this building and accompanying buildings are certainly much newer. Wadler Bros Inc. is a True Value member.

Cart Tax: Apart from the ever-so-popular basket-holding carts manufactured by Versacart Systems, this store has full-sized shopping carts from the defunct chain Rickel. These were manufactured by Unarco Industries in May 1997.

The service desk in the front. Note the pendant lights with schoolhouse glass shades. Also note the baskets (a very tiny percentage of which were also from Rickel, not shown) and the blue M&M floor display.

Aisles in the front are home to paints and stains.

The entire right side of the building is home to building materials, especially lumber.

Coming back around, we see aisles for hardware, building materials, plumbing, and home storage.

Heading further to the left side of the store, there are more plumbing aisles, plus the lawn & garden materials closer to the front.

Circling back through, we walk through one of the cleaning aisles, which like many aisles in the middle of the store has motion-activated LED strips that illuminate when one walks into the aisle.