Local hardware store opening second location after 25 years of business

After almost 25 years of enterprise in Idaho Falls (above), Rocknak’s {Hardware} is opening a second location in Terreton. | Courtesy Google maps, April 2019

TERRETON – An area ironmongery store is increasing its footprint in japanese Idaho.

Rocknak’s {Hardware} is opening in Terreton subsequent month. Retailer Supervisor Allen Newcomb tells EastIdahoNews.com the 8,500-square-foot retailer will open contained in the outdated Mud Lake Market at 1391 East 1500 North in mid-March.

“It’s form of a maze in right here proper now. We obtained about 25 pallets of freight on this morning,” Newcomb says.

A grand opening is within the works Might 1.

The shop can be geared up with all of the {hardware} gadgets clients are accustomed to, together with energy instruments, housewares, plumbing, electrical, farming and ranching provides. It would additionally embrace an automotive and outside/looking/fishing part.

A grocery part providing primary gadgets like milk, lunch meat and canned items will make it totally different than the Idaho Falls location.

“We’ll have a freezer and refrigerated part, some canned (gadgets). We simply received’t have any produce or something like that,” Proprietor Brian Rocknak says.

Newcomb says the shortage of grocery shops in Terreton is what prompted the addition of a grocery part. Comfort shops are at present the one possibility obtainable to clients.

“Individuals are nonetheless going to do the majority of their buying in Idaho Falls … however for these issues that you simply want proper now, it’s lots faster to return right here than to go there,” he says.

Rocknak’s {Hardware} is transferring into the outdated Mud Lake Market in Terreton. | Courtesy Brian Rocknak

Rocknak says having a constructing that had beforehand been used as a retail area made it supreme for including grocery gadgets.

“It simply labored as a retail enterprise. It had the parking and sufficiently big ground area to place our stock in,” he says.

There weren’t any plans to open a second location initially, however Rocknak says individuals in Terreton have been requesting one.

“The proprietor of the constructing approached us and we’ve had lots of people from the group asking us to place a ironmongery store up there. We seemed into it and there was a possibility to do it, so we determined to take the danger and go for it,” Rocknak says.

The dialog that set the undertaking in movement happened in August. Mud Lake Market closed about two years in the past.

Rocknak’s first opened in 1996 at 2250 West Broadway in Idaho Falls. Rocknak says there aren’t any rapid plans to open a 3rd location.

Newcomb is happy to open for enterprise and start serving clients. He’s hoping for an ideal turnout on opening day.

Retailer hours on the new location can be 8 a.m. to six p.m. Monday by Saturday.