Why is a hardware store called a hardware store

Because most of the items inside are metal products, and the most common metal is gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, the five kinds, so become the origin of the hardware store.

Hardware for the mother of industry, the foundation of national defense, hardware material products, usually only divided into two categories of large hardware and small hardware. Large hardware refers to steel plates, steel bars, flat iron, universal angle, channel iron, I-beam iron and various types of iron and steel materials, small hardware for the construction hardware, white iron, locks, nails, tools and so on.

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Hardware stores nowadays

Hardware industry is developing very fast, the traditional hardware industry, the most concentrated domestic market of several pieces of hardware is mainly concentrated in the mechanical hardware, architectural hardware, decorative hardware, daily-use hardware, which are the major sections. The trend of industrial concentration of the hardware industry is also very obvious, the domestic hardware industry is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Hebei, Shandong and other economically developed provinces and regions.

Traditional hardware enterprise products are relatively single, many enterprises just to other manufacturing enterprises to do supporting, accessories, the dependence on manufacturing enterprises is relatively strong.

And the response to market demand is slow. Traditional hardware enterprises do not pay attention to the research and development of new products and the extension of the market, thus resulting in the lack of sustained competitiveness of enterprises, in the face of more and more specialized market demand, more and more fierce competition, many of the initial development of the hardware enterprise very quickly feel the follow-up weakness.

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