The Bolt Depot Story
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The hardware
store of Cazeault in the 50's |
Bolt Depot grew out of the hardware business. In 1949 J.T.
Cazeault and Sons Hardware store was founded with a strong focus
on marine and industrial fasteners. It started out as a small
family-operated store.
The neighborhood was blue collar with almost a dozen repair
garages located within a mile of the store. The road through
town was known as ‘Gasoline alley’. The area was
also home to a large commercial fishing fleet. Soon the combination
produced a beehive of fix and repair activity. This, along with
the owner's interest in nuts and bolts, naturally led to an
even greater increase in the fastener stock. The store became
well known in the suburbs south of Boston for stocking an unusually
wide variety nuts and bolts.
In 1986 the store became affiliated with Ace hardware and this
is how it remained until a plan was developed to build a new
Lowe's home improvement center nearby. Jordan Cazeault the son
of the original owner knew he had to do something to offset
the expected loss of foot traffic. So he came up with an idea
to save his family-owned hardware store, BoltDepot.com.
Jordan envisioned a web site selling nuts
and bolts online using the same
simple selection process developed over the years in the hardware
store. A site reflecting the atmosphere of the family-owned
business it grew out of.
In the summer of 2000, with the help of a friend's programming
skills the web site finally became a reality. Since then we
have been continually adding product and improving the Bolt
Depot site to simplify our customers' online shopping experience.
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