Walter Hachborn, a co-founder of Home Hardware, has died at the age of 95. Hachborn worked his entire life in the retail hardware industry, starting out in 1938 as a stock boy in St. Jacob’s Ontario making $8 a week.. In the 1950s, he and two partners conceived the Home Hardware group-buying concept, a development that is credited with saving the family hardware store. Home Hardware now has close to 1,100 stores including Home Hardware, Home Building Centre and Home Furniture.
