A Windsor peddler’s shop became a seven-store Ontario institution by treating credit, delivery and community memory as part of the product. Its centennial offers a useful playbook - and a warning - for every regional retailer fighting national chains and endless online aisles.
A St. Paul bookkeeper bought the store he balanced the books for, plastered his family's name on it, and left it to all nine of his kids. Three generations later, they still won't sell.