Fourth Street We’re Hiring! Football Fever Visit ColeHardware.com/careers Happy Hour for current employment opportunities. Professional Thursday, February 4 Knife Sharpening 5:00 pm–8:00 pm Available at All Locations see page 2 for details see calendar on page 12 for dates and times COLE HARDWARE’s February 2016 NEWS AND VIEWS FROM AROUND THE STORES Download Our New App and Keep COLE HARDWARE Handy Wherever You Go! Download the brand- dialogue bubble, text us your new COLE HARDWARE app question, and we’ll get right to your iPhone or Android back to you! Check out the smartphone. You’ll have screenshots and see for your- quick and easy access self how simple it is. It’s free, to our hours and loca- of course, and just one more tions. But more important, small way we are working you can “Ask to fulfill our simple mission: us anything” “Our commitment to you: right from the Your satisfaction guaranteed. app. Press the Period.” 20% Off* Bag Sale! Saturday, February 20 Join us on Saturday, February 20, Amazon: Before You Click, for our 20% off storewide bag sale! This is a great time to stock Think About the Impact up on cleaning supplies and As I write this in mid-December, San Francisco is • Jobs. Amazon essentials. Don’t let those enduring Amazon’s latest experiment. There are creates less than half as New Year’s home billboards surrounding the City advertising one-hour many jobs as local improvement resolutions delivery. Gone are the many big green trucks of last businesses do. For every slip away—stock up on year’s attempt to deliver fresh groceries. Now we see $10 million in sales, Amazon everything you need for many little white vans with the Amazon “frown” on employs just 19 people. In a do-it-yourself project the side. They are busy trying to live up to Amazon’s contrast, independent retailers create in your home! Paint a latest delivery promise. And I have to admit, they 47 jobs for that same $10 million. room, plant a garden, seem to be doing a pretty good • Taxes. Yes, Amazon is finally collecting sales tax or hang some shelves. job. But before you click, in California. But in addition to sales taxes, local Whatever your project, think about the impact businesses pay property taxes and other local fees let our knowl edge able on local businesses and for storefront locations, which is money that crew get you our local economy. recirculates in our local economy and contributes started—and save Your choice matters. to our collective well-being. money at the same time. Receive a complimentary Thanks to the • Local Economy. Remember, every dime you COLE HARDWARE shopping tote with any purchase as research done by our spend with Amazon benefits their shareholders our gift to you. friends at the Institute and Seattle where they are headquartered. *Discount off regular retail price. Offer does not apply for Local Self-Reliance That’s cool perhaps if you have relatives or to gift cards, postage stamps, Muni passes, Clipper cards, (www.ilsr.org) I can friends who live there. Otherwise, remember that meter cards, special orders, or sale merchandise. Not present the following local businesses feed and support your local valid with coupons or other offers. Rewards points do not information to you: continued on page 2... accumulate. “Our commitment to you: Your satisfaction guaranteed. Period.” Shop online 24/7 at ColeHardware.com. 3312 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110-5009 PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID SAN FRANCISCO, CA PERMIT #3137 TIME-SENSITIVE Scan to view MATERIAL our website. Ask Our Organizer— In Person If decluttering and getting more organized are on your 2016 to-do list, wait no more! You can get the ball rolling by asking Debra, our professional organizer, all of your burning questions on February Fourth Street 20 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at our Rockridge store. Over the years, our customers have worked with Football Fever Debra to transform unruly files, offices, kitchens, closets, and more, resulting in greater control, productivity, and ease Happy Hour in their lives. As Larry of our Meet Debra Thursday, February 4 Repair Referral Saturday, February 20 5:00 pm–8:00 pm Service has written, 11:00 am–3:00 pm “We get nothing but Rockridge Store rave reviews from HAPPY HOUR our customers on COUPON Debra’s organizational talent. She has a keen understanding of the dilemma her clients face as they try to simplify their lives by becoming since 2007 and has been designated a San Francisco organized. She understands what to do with the piles Green Business since 2008. Let her help you get $ of papers that one accumulates over a lifetime. She unstuck and move toward your goals for the new will sit down with you and learn who you are as a year. 5 OFF person before diving into your space. Debra brings a If your home is in need of some organization and ANY $20+ PURCHASE lot of passion to her work. And she is a delightful you can’t make our Rockridge event, contact our DURING HAPPY HOUR person!” Repair Referral Service at 415/200-3430 or e-mail Debra has been an active member of the National [email protected], and we’ll put you Valid at Fourth Street store only, Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) in touch with Debra. Thursday, February 4, 5:00 pm– 8:00 pm. Offer does not apply to gift cards, postage stamps, Muni passes, Clipper cards, meter cards, special orders, or sale merchandise. Not valid with other coupons or offers. Must be a member or join our Rewards program. Mobile Locksmith Residential/Commercial Services One redemption per household. • Rekey and Lock Changes Services • Installation, Service, Repairs • Dead bolts and standard locks 24/7 Emergency • Panic hardware Services • High-security locks • Electric strikes Master Locksmith • Keyless-entry locks • Mailbox locks with Over 20 Years • Antique mortise locks of Experience • Safes Join us at our downtown • Design, Customization, and Implementation Fourth Street store on • Master key systems Thursday, February 4, for • Access control systems our Football Fever Happy • Lock Outs (30 minute reentry in most cases) Hour with a hometown Thirsty Bear brew or our Automotive Services Cutting Edge wine! • Lock Outs Enjoy the football- • Lock Repairs inspired favorites that we’ve gathered for you as you celebrate your own hometown (or someone else’s) team! Amazon: Before You Click, Think About the Impact Although we ...continued from page 1 w o n’ t b e cheering on community. We hire locally and have local supply click. If San Francisco consumer spending shifted the 49ers or chains where we purchase goods and services. just 10%, San Francisco retailers would create nearly Frankly, about half of every dollar we reap in sales is 1,300 jobs and pump more than $190 million into the Raiders plowed back into the local our community, and imagine those this year, we all can ou community one way or another. nd y r m numbers applied to Oakland and the celebrate—or at least a on • Community. A mazon e e greater Bay Area. (Don’t take my r y watch—the big game! e contributes nothing to our local h s word for it. Check out the study at t nonprofit organizations and a http://sfloma.org/Studies). So, what’s p y o schools. Studies show that locally s the message? If you click 10% less h h owned businesses give almost s SFSAN FRANCISCOL LOCALLY OWNED MERCHANTSMA ALLIANCE and move those purchases to your SHOP LOCAL FIRST e r twice as much to the local e favorite locally owned stores, our community as big businesses in community will general. I know the depth of COLE benefit immensely: HARDWARE’s support and involvement in our local you’ll help create jobs and keep communities. And I know of many other local our neighborhoods vibrant. Resist businesses that are equally involved. the urge to shop Amazon. Think Your local retailers know you are going to shop about it before you click. Amazon. But think about the impact before you —Rick 2 February 2016 Five locations serving you every single day of the year! “Our commitment to you: Your satisfaction guaranteed. Period.” Locksmith, Home Repair, Design + Build, and much more! Repair Referral Service COLE HARDWARE’s Repair Referral Service was created to introduce our customers to the Independent contractors and tradespeople for: finest contractors and tradespeople we know. We have formed alliances with independent • Home, business, and property repairs businesspeople in order to provide you with the very best in home repair, maintenance, and • Maintenance • Remodeling/room additions remodeling. Some jobs may even be performed by qualified members of our staff. Contact us at 415/200-3430 We provide referrals for: or e-mail [email protected] All of the vendors and tradespeople in our Repair Referral Service Air Conditioning Computer Data Cabling Fences Interior Design, Staging, have been prescreened and carefully selected. Alarms/Security Systems/Access Computer Grounding Furnace Repair and Installation and Color Consultation Control Computer Repair and Tutoring Furniture Refinishing and Repair Interior Wood Refinishing Antique Restoration Custom Closets, Pantries, Furniture Upholstering and Restoration Power Washing, Commercial Stained Glass Creation Appliance Repair and Installation and Storage Solutions Garage Door Repair/Installation Iron and Metal Works/Gates and Residential Cleaning and Repair Arborist Decks New/Stain Gardening/Pruning/Tree Kitchen and Bath Remodeling Remodeling/Major Stair Lift Installation Architectural Planning Design + Build Trimming Landscaping Remodeling Stucco Work Asbestos Removal Disaster