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Most of the initial subscribers to the Hardlines Digest were originally subscribers to the printed Hardgoods Confidential, and 99% of those folks were True Value owners who had a Activant/Triad system. The list has grown tremendously since then, but the core group still tends to be stores with Activant systems.
