BAG SALE! E-Waste Holiday 20% OFF! Drop-Off EVERYTHING THAT FITS (OR NOT) INTO YOUR BAG! Preview Cole St., Mission St. Saturday see page 8 BAG SALE! and Polk St. Locations November 6 Saturday, Nov. 13 Mission St. Store Cole Fox Friday, Nov. 12 20% see page 2 for details see page 11 for details COLE HARDWARE ’s EVERYTHINGOFF THAT FITS (OR NOT) INTO YOUR BAG! November 2010 NEWS AND VIEWS FROM AROUND THE STORES Gift Registry Now at COLE HARDWARE ! Our Polk Street Store Frequent Shopper Celebrates Lucky 7! Rebate Reminder On behalf of everyone at COLE HARDWARE , we garden departments, has been at the Polk If you haven’t yet redeemed your 2009 frequent would like to thank the Russian Hill neighborhood Street store since its opening. Cole Fox’s Patty shopper rebate, please visit one of our four stores as we mark our Polk Street location’s seventh and Mission Street’s Oscar were also part of by December 31, 2010, in order to do so. Any anniversary this November. While all of our the opening crew, although they have since customer service representative can assist you. stores have their transferred to our Your rebate is 5% of your total 2009 purchases that unique personalities, other locations. we give back to you in the form of a gift card. our Polk Street location Tina and Lane have When shopping for your holiday purchases, not only offers basic assembled a colorful remember to give the cashier your frequent hardware items, crew to assist you with shopper number in order to have your purchases such as paint, keys, all of your hardware, applied toward electrical, plumbing housewares and your 2010 and cleaning supplies, garden needs. rebate. Don’t but it is also known To thank you worry if you for its vast selection of for your warm don’t know fashion-forward home, welcome to the the number; kitchen and garden neighborhood, all our cashiers merchandise. of our stores will are able to look it up for you using Recently Polk Street’s celebrate with a Bag your name, phone number or address to ensure longtime warehouse Lane (left), Tina (3rd from left) and their crew thank you Sale on Saturday, that your transactions are applied toward your manager, Lane, was and welcome you to the Polk Street store. November 13. rebate. promoted to assistant manager to our Polk Street Everything that you can fit into our reusable And don’t forget when purchasing a Muni Fast store manager, Tina, who actually wears a second shopping bag (or not) will be 20% off. Make Pass or meter card, spending an additional $5 hat as our director of staff development! Store sure to stop by our Polk Street store for a free allows you to apply the entire purchase toward veteran Gerri, who runs the housewares and slice of birthday cake! your annual frequent shopper rebate! “Our commitment to you: Your satisfaction guaranteed. Period.” 3312 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110-5009 PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID SAN FRANCISCO, CA PERMIT #3137 TIME SENSITIVE MATERIAL Last Chance to Save with the Green Zebra! In 2007, COLE HARDWARE proudly sponsored dozens of other fabulous deals and pilates studios, Green Zebra, the first Bay Area green shopping will be yours for free! independent bookstores, guide and coupon book, which offered The guide includes a directory bike shops, museums, and local residents tips on how to adopt a green of local companies offering more. The Green Zebra lifestyle while saving some green. The 2010 products and services beneficial guide is also a fundraising Green Zebra fabulous savings and offers will to people’s health, communities, tool for local schools and expire December 31, so you can now pick and the planet, with more than nonprofit organizations one up for just $10, a $15 savings from the 275 exclusive offers totaling over $10,000 in and has raised over $100,000 for schools in $25 regular price. By redeeming your $10 savings at places such as organic restaurants four years since it has been available. (Sku COLE HARDWARE coupon and a few others, then and markets, eco-friendly retailers, spas, yoga 940403, $10.00) Fall Time-Change Reminder Sunday, November 7 Clocks are changed one hour back this year on Sunday, November 7, at 2:00 am. If you set your clocks back on Saturday Freshly Cut night, November 6, before you go to bed, you’ll awake Sunday morning to the correct time. While this means we gain a precious Christmas Trees hour of sleep, it also means that it gets darker much earlier. Available the week of Thanksgiving at Cole Take this opportunity to also check the batteries in your smoke detectors or install Street, Mission Street and Polk Street stores! a new one at the recommendation of the San Francisco Fire Department. BAG SALE! SAVE $5 OFF A $10 PURCHASE! Going Mobile Just Got Better! 20% Just in time for the holidays, we are once again offering a mobile coupon. Now you can not only save $5 off a $10 purchase, but you can share it with your family and friends—and SAVE EVEN MORE! OFF Forward it to five local friends, and you'll receive an additional $5 mobile coupon that can be used EVERYTHING THAT FITS (OR NOT) for another visit to COLE HARDWARE , as long as your friend hasn't signed up for or received the mobile INTO YOUR BAG! offer this month from you or anyone else. To receive your To share this offer with your friends and Cole Street, Cole Fox mobile coupon: family: Mission Street Friday, • Send a text to 639227. • REPLY to the text message you receive and Polk Street Nov. 12 • Type COLE in text on your mobile phone with your Locations body. friend’s phone number (space) Saturday, • You will receive a text COLE. Nov. 13 message confirming • You will receive confirmation when your $5 coupon. You your friend has received your text, Load up for the will also receive a and once your message is forwarded holidays and save on 4-digit password (PIN). to five friends, you will receive almost anything* that Make sure you save another coupon. fits (or not) in your the text, as you will bag! When it comes to need the password to To find out more about our holiday decorations redeem your coupon. new mobile program, visit www and preparations, COLE .colehardware.com/mobile. Offer HARDWARE is the place The next time you are expires 11/30/10. Minimum purchase to find everything shopping, you can redeem $10. Not valid with other offers. Cannot you need. your coupon by simply be applied to purchase of Muni Fast Pass or You’ll also receive a FREE reusable entering your 10-digit mobile meter cards, gift cards or special orders. As shopping bag with any purchase! phone number and your always, COLE HARDWARE will not sell, rent or give 4-digit pin in the terminal at your e-mail address or mobile phone number *Sale items, gift cards, Muni passes the cash register as you are to any third parties. Mobile coupon offers and meter cards excluded. checking out. cannot be combined. 2 November 2010 Four locations serving you every single day of the year! “Our commitment to you: Your satisfaction guaranteed. Period.” Urban Gift Registry Show Us Your COLE HARDWARE now has an Urban Gift Registry service. O L E ar DW are Registries are no longer just for weddings and are C H now common for housewarmings, birthdays, and first T-Shirt! apartments or even for recent high school graduates heading off to college. Frequent Shopper Sal shared this A registry assists friends and family in choosing a photo of a recent trip to Bangkok, thoughtful gift that is also Thailand, in front of the Erawan Shrine. desired by the recipient. Send us a photo of you, your friends or To set up an family wearing a COLE HARDWARE T-shirt appointment at in front of the Golden Gate Bridge or one our stores or London Bridge, and we’ll send you a $5 for any questions, gift card. T-shirts are available in men’s, simply e-mail gift@ women’s and children’s sizes. ($9.99) colehardware.com E-mail your photo to hotline@ Frequent Shopper Sal sporting his COLE HARDWARE or call 415/753-2653 colehardware.com. 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While Supplies Last Expires 11/30/10 The Crocker Galleria, 50 Post St. 415.346.2361 — Rick Karp, President, aka Keeper of the Karma COLE HARDWARE 's Hardware Hotline November 2010 3 WH AT ’S UNIQ ue ? INOVA® UV LED The Haight-Ashbury Map and Guide Flashight More than 40 years after the Summer guide to the Haight-Ashbury, or what they The last time you went through the security of Love, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury call a “paper museum.” The booklet includes checkpoint at the airport, you probably neighborhood still carries an aura of intrigue, a pull-out map, a written history and vivid noticed a unique flashlight shining a purple drawing throngs of tourists from around the photos.