A bookstore is not like a hardware store with respect to criminal investigations," Ms. Meskis said.
"Even though it looks like a hardware appliance company, the reality is we're really a software company," he said.
(Like a hardware store or a butcher shop, a restaurant is a business that, to be profitable, must give its customers both product and service).
The place itself, looks more than anything else, like a hardware store, let us say run by Brancuse and Fernand Leger.
Its elaborate façade looks like a hardware store — a near-exact replica of the storefront of Square Hardware, a neighborhood fixture several blocks southeast from 1955 to 2015.
Mr. Mousel thinks the store should reopen for its historical significance, but feels that in a town with two other stores besides his own — a food co-op and gas station market — the building should serve some other purpose, like a hardware store.
On my last day, during a visit to Larry's farm, I asked him, "Is there a private room where" —again I searched for socially appropriate words and found none — "I could breast pump?" He scurried to direct me to his parts room, which was like a hardware store the size of a walk-in closet.
Maybe it's just that Apple fundamentally still thinks like a hardware company.
