We would often joke when we went to the Lowes Hardware at Ticonderoga that the store looked like a Hollywood set, where the company might film their commercials.

That's because the store was like a scene from a movie, brightly lit, always pristine - where the floors actually sparkled. There appeared to be not a screw out of place. We were always helped by happy, smart and attentive employees.  (That's a far cry from other Lowes stores we've been to, as far south as Maryland and New Jersey, where it seemed like a hurricane had just passed through moments before our arrival, scattering products and making the staff disappear).