Taylor's Do it Center

Highly Engaged Employees

89 years later, that original coal yard and small warehouse has become Taylor's Do-It centers, one of the region's biggest home-grown success stories, with stores in 9 locations and a very impressive sales volume. As one of Virginia Beach's oldest retail businesses, this family-owned and run enterprise continues to be the destination of choice for... homeowners who come to Taylor's expecting to find the same things customers have found for 83 years now: uncommon customer service, quality merchandise, cheerful expertise, excellent selection and competitive pricing. At Taylor's, doing business the old-fashioned way has never gone out of style. You can trace Taylor's current policies straight back to the principles of the original founders - James Jordan, Audie Fisher, Edward Hardy, and Willard Ashburn, joined in short order by Robert Taylor. Robert Taylor's son, Dawson Taylor, now Chairman of Taylor's Do-It centers, often reflects on the values they handed down. Dawson remembers his father as a man of warmth and gentleness. Robert Taylor came from a poor family in Portsmouth, but despite stopping school after the elementary grades he managed through sheer determination to graduate from a business college. A stint as a secretary/assistant to a railway executive gave him an insider's education on how to make a business work. It was a lesson that all the founders excelled at: hard work, honest dealings and the willingness to go the extra mile for a customer.Read More