Local hardware stores are preparing for an influx of customers this weekend as the Miami Valley gets snow.
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News Center 7′s Mason Fletcher spoke to hardware store employees who said not to wait too long to pick up your supplies.
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“I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t have 30 to 40 customers in the store at a time,” Regena Balaz, Ace Hardware employee, said.
On a normal, snowless day, Balaz says the store will probably only see 10 to 20 customers.
For winter weather preps, most customers are shopping for the same list.
“Definitely salt, nobody wants to fall and break their leg or neck, snow shovels, snow blowers,” Balzas said.
Patrick Freeman, who was shopping at Grieves Hardware, says he splits his weather prep supplies with his neighbor.