Hardlines is in Lisbon, Portugal, for the 11th annual Global DIY Summit. The day before the conference, delegates were treated to a day of store tours. One stop presented a pro-focused dealer that knows how to stack and push high volumes of building materials out of a relatively small space. Another location, more DIY-oriented, owes as its layout and merchandising as much to IKEA as it does to Home Depot.
(We’ll have more coverage of the best European home improvement retail, and coverage of the Global DIY Summit, in the pages of our sister publication, Hardlines Weekly Report. Not getting HWR each Monday morning? Click here to subscribe)
