Riverside Hardware opened on Main Street in 1962 with one aisle of hand tools, a paint counter, and a promise the Hollis family has kept ever since: never let a neighbor leave without the right part. What started as a single storefront grew, decade by decade, into the eight departments it carries today — not because a franchise plan said so, but because the town kept asking for more of what it actually needed.
Three generations of the Hollis family have run the counter since — each one adding a department, not replacing the last one's work.
We don't have self-checkout. We have Marge, who's worked the front register since 1994 and will remember your name, your dog, and your last leaky pipe. Half the staff have been here more than a decade — long enough to know which aisle the odd-sized bolt lives in without checking.