Brooklyn hardware store’s pig gets noticed

Crest Hardware & Urban Garden Center, in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighbourhood, attracts animal lovers. Franklin, its resident potbellied pig, is a big reason for that. “People like to shop where they feel welcome,” Joe Franquinha (seen here ahead of his address to the 2019 Hardlines Conference), co-owner of the store with his wife Liza, told The New York Times. Franklin, he adds, has “got his own weird little cult following of customers that love to come in and check in on him or ask and see how he’s doing.”