Being in the heart of Silicon Valley, Hassett Hardware in Palo Alto serves a diverse community ranging from tradesmen/women from local businesses, families needing to keep a house-hold running smoothly, students from Stanford working on frontiers of technology, to start-ups bringing the latest innovations to market. On any day of the week you’ll see folks from all these groups in one spot in the store - the fasteners Department.
The common thread of these communities is their coming together at Hassett Hardware at Alma and Channing looking for solutions to their day-to-day problems.
The heart of any hardware store is the Fastener Department, better known as the place where one can find everything from a tiny metric screw needed to repair a clock to a box of concrete anchors for a construction site, and everything in between.
Hassett Hardware is constantly looking at the types and mix of products it offers in all its departments to see how we can better serve our customers, what new products customers will need, and how can we better solve existing problems for our customers.
So what’s new at Hassett Hardware?
We just renovated the entire fastener department: moving out all old inventory and fixtures and replacing them with new shelving, bins, drawers and stock. It’s been almost ten years since the last overall reset for this department in Palo Alto, so it was time.
What will I find in the new fastener department?- Expected and needed items such as screws, nut, bolts and other hardware
- Quadruple the amount of metric items we used to carry
- Expanded selection on existing categories such as spacers
- Aluminum
- Stainless steel
- Nylon
- Significantly more sizes of jam nuts
- An entirely new category dedicated to expansion springs
These new and expanded categories allow us to better support long-time customers, as well as support new applications of hardware from Stanford students and Silicon Valley start-ups.
What else is new?
We’ve also refreshed some of the educational “how-to” displays and brochures in the department. Be sure to check out the excellent display on all manner of wall anchors the next time you are in the store.
And we aren’t finished, because over the next few months we will fill in some empty spaces, and refresh the corner with specialty metals, tube, wires, and sheets. This inventory is the bedrock of many projects – and we’re working to meet your needs both with great new innovative products, and knowledgeable staff.
We are always interested in hearing about your applications and needs for fasteners and associated hardware. If you have feedback for us, please feel free to call the store: 650-327-7222, email us at info@hassetthardware.com or leave us a message on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HassettAceHardware.
Since completely refurnishing and restocking the department we’ve had customers complete home projects: fixing a wobbly ceiling fan, attaching a mirror to a door, building a deck; to hobby projects: fixing a 30-year old telescope mount, building an Archimedes screw, renovating an Airstream trailer; to some cutting edge high-tech start-up endeavors: building a heart-stent mock-up. We’d love to have you come in with your next project and let us help you find the latest, greatest, and fastest way to complete it!
-Lee Courtney
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