Illustration - Eco

Illustration - Eco

FRANCE. AUVERGNE. PUY DE DOME (63) OLD SIGN OF A HARDWARE STORE Photo by Bernard Jaubert/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Paris

Illustration - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75), MONTORGUEIL DISTRICT. A MAN WITH A GREAT DANE DOG PASSING IN FRONT OF A HARDWARE STORE. Photo by Bruno de Hogues/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

Nintendo

Nintendo

A retail store selling Nintendo game software and hardware in Shanghai, China on May 10, 2025.

Nintendo

Nintendo

A retail store selling Nintendo game software and hardware in Shanghai, China on May 10, 2025.

Nintendo

Nintendo

A retail store selling Nintendo game software and hardware in Shanghai, China on May 10, 2025.

Nintendo

Nintendo

A retail store selling Nintendo game software and hardware in Shanghai, China on May 10, 2025.

Nintendo

Nintendo

A retail store selling Nintendo game software and hardware in Shanghai, China on May 10, 2025.

Nintendo

Nintendo

A retail store selling Nintendo game software and hardware in Shanghai, China on May 10, 2025.

Nintendo

Nintendo

A retail store selling Nintendo game software and hardware in Shanghai, China on May 10, 2025.

Mass Electrical Outage - Spain

Mass Electrical Outage - Spain

Interior of a hardware store turned off due to the blackout in the city of Albacete, on April 28, 2025, in Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). An electrical blackout has hit Spain, Portugal and part of France at 12:30 am. Without yet knowing the specific causes of the blackout, the power supply is gradually being restored in all regions of the Iberian Peninsula. Some cities and municipalities have been without power for more than 12 hours, and other areas have not yet recovered. Photo by Víctor Fernández / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Mass Electrical Outage - Spain

Mass Electrical Outage - Spain

Interior of a hardware store turned off due to the blackout in the city of Albacete, on April 28, 2025, in Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). An electrical blackout has hit Spain, Portugal and part of France at 12:30 am. Without yet knowing the specific causes of the blackout, the power supply is gradually being restored in all regions of the Iberian Peninsula. Some cities and municipalities have been without power for more than 12 hours, and other areas have not yet recovered. Photo by Víctor Fernández / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

At Least 89 People Remain Missing After Floods - Eastern Spain

At Least 89 People Remain Missing After Floods - Eastern Spain

The owner of the Todolar hardware store shows the store's facilities after the passage of the DANA, on November 6, 2024, in Pedralba, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Pedralba is a municipality in Valencia in the Serranos region of just over 3,000 inhabitants whose streets are still waterlogged with mud. The Military Emergency Unit (UME), together with volunteers empty houses and check their structures for damage that may affect the safety of the neighbors, as well as accumulate water and mud to clear the streets. The municipality has had to lament the death of three inhabitants as a consequence of the DANA. Photo by Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Do-it-yourself gains popularity among women

Do-it-yourself gains popularity among women

TOKYO, Japan - A female customer (L) listens to a sales clerk on how to handle tools at a do-it-yourself store in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2012. Once considered to be overwhelmingly male retail spaces, do-it-yourself hardware stores have recently witnessed an influx of female customers, with a growing number of Japanese women picking up tools to carry out home improvements themselves.

Do-it-yourself gains popularity among women

Do-it-yourself gains popularity among women

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a compact-sized electric drill, developed for women, on sale at a do-it-yourself store in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2012. Once considered to be overwhelmingly male retail spaces, do-it-yourself hardware stores have recently witnessed an influx of female customers, with a growing number of Japanese women picking up tools to carry out home improvements themselves.

Do-it-yourself gains popularity among women

Do-it-yourself gains popularity among women

TOKYO, Japan - A member (L) of "DIY Joshibu" (DIY women's club) teaches another member how to apply paint on a wall at a club meeting at a do-it-yourself store in Tokyo's Koto Ward on July 14, 2012. Once considered to be overwhelmingly male retail spaces, do-it-yourself hardware stores have recently witnessed an influx of female customers, with a growing number of Japanese women picking up tools to carry out home improvements themselves.

Do-it-yourself gains popularity among women

Do-it-yourself gains popularity among women

TOKYO, Japan - Members of "DIY Joshibu" (DIY women's club) saw plywood to make a message board at a club meeting at a do-it-yourself store in Tokyo's Koto Ward on July 14, 2012. Once considered to be overwhelmingly male retail spaces, do-it-yourself hardware stores have recently witnessed an influx of female customers, with a growing number of Japanese women picking up tools to carry out home improvements themselves.

Extraordinary Measures (2010)

Extraordinary Measures (2010)

Brendan Fraser & Harrison Ford Characters: John Crowley, Dr. Robert Stonehill Film: Extraordinary Measures (2010) Director: Tom Vaughan 22 January 2010 Date: 22 January 2010

Ex-PM Tanaka's schematic drawing of new bullet train line on display

Ex-PM Tanaka's schematic drawing of new bullet train line on display

Hardware store manager Hideaki Yoshikoshi points to former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's schematic drawing of the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line's route in Myoko, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on March 6, 2015. The line was inaugurated on March 14. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan - Yokohama - Bashamichi-Dori Street

Japan - Yokohama - Bashamichi-Dori Street

Japan - Yokohama - Bashamichi-Dori Street Date: circa 1930s

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

Huawei Hicar Roewe IMAX8

A Roewe IMAX8 equipped with Huawei Hicar is seen at Huawei's global flagship store in Shanghai, Feb 22, 2021. It is reported that Huawei Hicar 2.0 vehicle and computer system has joined hands with SAIC Roewe, and Roewe iMAX8 equipped with Hicar can provide intelligent experience of the whole scene. Quickly integrate the hardware resources, system capabilities and service ecology of mobile phones and automobiles. At the same time, it will also carry Zebra Zhixing Venus system, Skyeye system and other interactive technologies.

Nitori launches rival takeover bid for Shimachu in Nov.

Nitori launches rival takeover bid for Shimachu in Nov.

Akio Nitori (L), chairman of Japanese home furnishings retailer Nitori Holdings Co., meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2020, unveiling a plan to launch a rival takeover bid in mid-November to make do-it-yourself and hardware store operator Shimachu Co. a wholly owned subsidiary.

Nitori launches rival takeover bid for Shimachu in Nov.

Nitori launches rival takeover bid for Shimachu in Nov.

Akio Nitori, chairman of Japanese home furnishings retailer Nitori Holdings Co., meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2020, unveiling a plan to launch a rival takeover bid in mid-November to make do-it-yourself and hardware store operator Shimachu Co. a wholly owned subsidiary.

Nitori launches rival takeover bid for Shimachu in Nov.

Nitori launches rival takeover bid for Shimachu in Nov.

Akio Nitori (R), chairman of Japanese home furnishings retailer Nitori Holdings Co., meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2020, unveiling a plan to launch a rival takeover bid in mid-November to make do-it-yourself and hardware store operator Shimachu Co. a wholly owned subsidiary.