True Value in CNY

Quintessential family owned small town Central California store in Lone Pine, CA

 True Value Hardware have entered administration being unable to compete with Lowes, Home Depot, Menards (covered earlier and not yet in the Northeast) and Runnings. Many franchises converted to Ace over the years, including in CNY in recent years. True Value were the epitome of the mom and pop hardware store, which isn't entirely dead outside small towns and suburbs. Another competitor, Do It Best, just bought True Value. DIB are available at Valu (no relation), as well as in Cazenovia, Elbridge,  Constantia, Chittenango, Baldwinsville, Liverpool (at Runnings ironically), Canastota and Tully, while DIB have had affiliates in East Syracuse (Doow Hardware in Oot Park/Fremont on N Burdick St Rd) and Fulton (NY 3, not Burkes on 2nd St). True Value in CNY remain in Manlius/Buellville (NY 92) and Cazenovia (US 20) to name a few, as well as Taylor Rental (no hardware) on NY 5 in deWitt (not that Taylor!). The merger may possibly make any new True Value franchises unlikely and overlapping ones could even switch over to Ace themselves if one isn't around already. Here's what I can gather from memory or from new research of where one could get tools, supplies and such with personal service without the big box behemoth like back in the old days.

Syracuse (Eastwood) (1) - NY 290 & Marlborough Rd; later dollar store and Pomco; now United HealthCare

Syracuse (Eastwood) (2) - NY 290 between North Ave & Eastwood Rd; Nightingales; former Rite Aid; demolished for Walgreens in 2006

Syracuse (Eastwood) (3) - NY 290; Eastwood Plaza; Nightingales; half of former Sacred Melody; later Hooches, soon to be 3fifteen (liquor store was considered, but ultimately decided against)

Syracuse (west side) - Calleys City Hardware, 214 S Geddes St (soon to be new business; no longer listed on site; ran as indie until October 2025)

Marcellus - South St Rd; Nightingale Mills (same family as Eastwood); now Ace

Syracuse (south side) - NY 173 & US 11; now Bobs Ace

Brewerton - US 11 & Bartell Rd; now Ace

Mattydale - US 11; now J&J deSantis Plumbing

Syracuse (east side); Westcott St; Scharfs; TBD

Central Square - US 11 and/or NY 49; TBD

Tully - US 11 & NY 80; Nightingales; now Ace