...location. That includes a franchise fee of $20,000. ReTool bills itself as the only national chain specializing in secondhand tools. Apart from some scattered independent stores, the company figures it has the field to itself. ''We're going...

...controlled creation. His hardworking family was like many from that era. He gained his knowledge in hard dirt and secondhand tools, from his toys as a child to the trucks he drove in his 20s. From that natural upbringing, he has an incredible...