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One Tuesday, Arthur found himself in a small hardware store that looked like it hadn’t seen a customer since the mid-nineties. The owner, a man named Silas, was hunched over a ledger, his face etched with the weariness of a man fighting a losing battle against the digital age.

Arthur didn't lead with a pitch. He didn't even open his briefcase. Instead, he pulled up a stool and asked, "Silas, what’s the one thing in this shop that you’ll never sell?" salesman

Silas looked up, surprised. He pointed to an old, rusted weather vane shaped like a rooster sitting on the top shelf. "My grandfather made that," he said. "It’s been there forty years. Folks look at it, but they want the plastic ones from the big-box stores." One Tuesday, Arthur found himself in a small