The headline seems a bit misleading. I assume that pretty much every local store sells to anyone who walks in. The store clerks are not likely to ask every potential customer if they are a protester.
I can’t fault Ace on this. At least not based on the info I have so far.
Of course they are selling to the protesters. Ace Hardware is a franchise, each one is owned by the local store, no way is a small businessman in rural ND going to turn away that much business.
This time of the year up that way people need snow shovels, etc.
Sounds like a rumor mill story from who knows where.
Right — why is this even a story? LOL. If a pipeline protester walked in and wanted to buy $10,000 worth of hardware store merchandise, Ace would be damn foolish to send them out the door empty-handed.
Agreed ... the way I see it is that, as long as they’re not GIVING it to them, but rather are SELLING it to them, it’s just business as usual.
Are we talking cans of spray paint or what ?