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After more than 50 years, Blossom True Value Hardware, Mountain View, Ca., plans to close when its lease expires this summer.
Longtime owner Paul Zeitman said business has been falling since customers began increasingly shopping online post-pandemic. Other contributing factors are regular customers moving out of the area, the opening of more Ace Hardware stores in the region, and rising tariffs, which has made their imported merchandise less profitable.
Zeitman has worked at the store ever since his father opened it 53 years ago in Los Altos, Ca. It has been in Mountain View since 2006.
