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includes helping customers with project tips and instructions—are what set Shamburger & Graham apart from the local competition. “We don’t just fill orders and let our customers leave,” Don says. “We recommend the right supplies and how to use them and walk our customers through the different stages of their projects.” The Start of a Beautiful Friendship Shamburger & Graham’s relationship with Blish-Mize dates back to the late 1980s. By this time, a number of Shamburger locations had closed, but eight stores remained in business and used Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Co. as their hardware supplier. When Belknap went out of business in 1986, its former sales representatives approached Blish-Mize to see if there was any interest in running trucks to Texas and doing business with the Shamburger stores. Then president and CEO John H. Mize Jr. drew up an agreement and the Shamburger stores became the supplier’s flagship Texas customers. Today, Shamburger & Graham is the last of the Shamburger stores. Still, Blish-Mize continues to honor the agreement from 1986. “After all these years, they still honor their word,” Don says. “They have been really good to us.”

Shamburger & Graham offers a strong lumber and building materials selection along with electrical, plumbing, windows, doors and paint.

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