Pollock’s Hardware Co-op in Winnipeg’s North End celebrated its 100th anniversary last month with a block party. Local craft brewery Torque Brewing produced a special Pollock’s Cream Ale for the occasion. When the store’s last family owners retired and couldn’t find a buyer, they closed it in 2007. Community members banded together to resurrect the business as a co-op.
“For anybody to reach 100 years, it’s amazing, but for a retail location and the flux that retail’s had, it’s super amazing,” Rod Harder, the co-op board’s treasurer, told CBC News. “How we do it is that we believe … in people before profits.”
