I can’t report on rumors and up until today, that’s all I have heard about Harbor Freight Tools (HFT) coming to Benton. Rumors. I got voice mail when I called the marketing department at HFT’s corporate office in Calabasas, California. So I just decided to call the store in Little Rock and see if I could get any info there. I got an employee on the phone who is probably not an official spokesperson, so we’ll leave their name out. That employee did say that although it’s not listed as a “coming soon” store on the HFT website, the company is “looking to place a store” in Saline County.
As the rumors go, people have said HFT likes the old Hibbett Sports location on Military Road. So I pressed further to ask the employee whether it would be in Benton. The employee could not confirm that information.
So there you go. On the Business-News-O-Meter, that chance of being true went from a 50% likelihood to a 51% likelihood. I suggest you write a note to the company letting them know they are welcome here and you’re going to buy lots of hammers. You can go to this link and on the drop-down menu, click “recommend a store location.”