北京玻璃隔断批发厂家【专业安装】

The rumor¹ proved all too bitterly true: Park's Hardware, a downtown institution of Orono, Maine, since 1898, would be closing.

Word spread quickly. Locals cajoled, cross-examined, and pleaded with Lin, the owner of the store, to no avail. Running a small, local, family-owned hardware business was no longer a profitmaker². The town's affection for Park's Hardware was just not enough to allow it to prevail against the giant warehouse³ stores that loomed⁴, discount-laden, down the road in Bangor.