My sister enjoys this about working at home depot. That and meeting the dogs, if the dogs could tell her about the owners project it would be perfect.
Local hardware stores are actually doing well. They are a little more expensive, but have made up for it by having someone who knows where to find what you need quickly.
Well my sister used to work as a cashier at a local hardware store when she was a teenager before they got obliterated by Lowes and Home Depot and pretty much everybody would go there to buy their sundry needs for various projects. Turns out that you strike up a conversation with someone who lives in your neighborhood, you find out about their projects, then their family, then their lives. It's you know, community, not mumbling words at some faceless person that is a poor cog for megacorp whose only plan is to literally extract more money from the community than they inject.