Yes, because “heart” is the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about hardware stores. And of course it only applies to the small, neighborhood hardware emporiums; no way an employee of Low’s or Home Dee-Po could care about their job or their customers.
This is the same Capraesque “sentiment coaxing” Batiuk tried a couple of times with newshound Skip Bittman and the Centerville Sentinel, and it rang just as false then.
Yes, because “heart” is the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about hardware stores. And of course it only applies to the small, neighborhood hardware emporiums; no way an employee of Low’s or Home Dee-Po could care about their job or their customers.
This is the same Capraesque “sentiment coaxing” Batiuk tried a couple of times with newshound Skip Bittman and the Centerville Sentinel, and it rang just as false then.