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| - Formerly an ACE hardware with knowledgeable helpful staff, they decided not to pay the ACE franchise fees anymore so it's just been "Hardware" for the past several years now. The patriarch of the family died and the son who ran this store only made periodic visits and according to some, just didn't seem to care too much. I'm told ownership may have changed again since then. The long time knowledgeable staff appear to be gone. The young staff this Sunday afternoon, in the dead-quiet, empty store, were decent, and one stopped and asked if he could help, but was about as knowledgeable as me. As others have noted, the shelves look a little bare, and what kind of hardware store doesn't have WD-40 in stock?
I'll go back because of their convenient location and in hope the knowledgeable long-termers just weren't there today, and because I like small hardware stores, but for today at least, this place felt less than ace - more like a two.
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