page_title: Orchard Supply Hardware
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Orchard Supply Hardware / Operations
caption_attribution_description: Orchard Supply Hardware in San Rafael, California.
context_page_description: Orchard Supply Hardware was an American retailer of home improvement and gardening products. Headquarters were in San Jose, California, Orchard Supply Hardware had dozens of locations throughout California, with expansions into Oregon and Florida.
  After starting as a non-profit cooperative in 1931, the company later converted into a for-profit corporation before it was bought and sold by a number of different corporations during the 1980s. In 1996, the company was acquired by Sears. After a brief period as a public company in 2012–13, the company filed for a Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2013, the bulk of OSH's assets and locations were purchased by the home improvement store chain, Lowe's. For the next five years, the chain was operated as a subsidiary of Lowe's and used for strategic expansion of retail operations. All stores were closed in November 2018.
caption: Interior of an Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Rafael, California as shown in 2016
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