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While many people are wishing wintery weather would just go away, some businesses are thriving on the blasts of mother nature. Snow, ice and the cold mean hot business for those who sell products to battle the storms.

East Hamilton Radio is getting about 40 calls a day from people who want remote car starters. They’ve sold so many of them that people are having to wait until February to get them installed. But that’s just one item on the hot list of winter products flying off shelves.

Tires at the Walmart on Rymal near Highway 20 in Hamilton have been in demand. By 3:30 in the afternoon, they’d sold 24 winter tires. Walmart is selling about 600 bottles of windshield wiper fluid a day and about 30 shovels a day. And because of these fridgidly cold temperatures, car batteries are dying so Walmart’s are seeing above normal sales of batteries. Generators are hard to keep in stock. Just three sat on the shelves as people worry about another power outage. Store Manager Sarah Pring says some items are challenging to keep in stock: “I think right now would be the salt people are concerned because there are bylaws they have to adhere to and I think they want to keep their driveways so the salt right now we need to overdo it on salt for sure.”

That one Walmart is selling one-thousand salt bags a day and has to stock up nightly to meet the needs of customers buying salt. Generally speaking, Walmart is seeing winter supply sales double or sometimes triple the number of what they sold this time last year.