Home Improvement
- Builderama — Georgia-based chain
- Builders Emporium
- Builders Square — Subsidiary of Kmart, sold off to Hechinger
- Buck Alley Lumber — Wichita, Kansas; owned by the father of actress Kristie Alley
- Central Hardware
- Channel Home Centers
- Chase Pitkin — was owned by the Wegman's family of Rochester, New York
- Coast to Coast Hardware
- Courtesy Hardware Store
- Eagle Hardware & Garden — founded 1989
- Erb Lumber — Detroit, Michigan
- Ernst Home Centers — Seattle, Washington
- EXPO Design Center
- Forest City — became Handy Andy
- Furrow's
- Gamble-Skogmo — bought by Our Own Hardware in 1986
- Grossman's
- Handy Andy Home Improvement Center
- Handy City
- Handy Dan
- Handyman — formerly owned by Edison Bros. Stores; closed in 1986
- Hechinger
- Heslop's
- Hill-Behan
- HomeBase
- Home Quarters Warehouse
- House 2 Home
- House Works
- Hugh M. Woods
- Jacobs — Old Bridge, New Jersey; became a New York Sports Club, now empty store
- Knox Lumber
- Lechters Housewares
- Le Gourmet Chef
- Mr. Good Buys
- Lindsley Lumber
- National Lumber
- NHD (National Hardgoods Distributors
- Ole's — merged with Builders Emporium during the mid-1980s
- Our Own Hardware — bought by Hardware Wholesalers in 1997
- Pay 'N Pak
- Payless Cashways — included Furrows & Payless; all assets liquidated as of November 2001
- Pergament Home Centers
- Rickel
- Roper Lumber Company (Virginia based)
- Scotty's Builders Supply
- Singer Lumber
- Triangle
- Weatherill's
- Yardbirds Home Center
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