WOOSTER - Matt Tignor stood near the door to Tignor's Hometown Hardware when a customer entered the family-owned store on Columbus Avenue. The man walked through a door plastered with 15% off signs.

EGG HARBOR CITY - Walk through the front doors of the Lynkris Hometown Hardware store and you soon realize why owner and operator Joe Fondacaro says, “there’s a big difference.” The Egg Harbor City ...