:> Try Ace Hardware. Much higher quality, and often cheaper. :>
:> -- Andy Barss
: Ace has consistently had the highest prices for any item you can mention, : unless it's on the clearance rack, and then, it's just under what the other : stores sell it for every day. Surely you jest.
They're independently owned and managed, and may be different where you are. Here (Southern AZ), I have one a couple miles away which has a pretty deep stock of decent hardware (grade 5 included), along with a billion things you'd never find at HD or Lowe's (cotter pins, motor shaft keys, brushes for electric motors,...). if I need something really obscure, there's one about 6 miles away which is enormous, and has pretty much anything I've ever needed that isn't made of a strange metal.
Both have nice, quite knowledgable staff.
And the prices are, for all the items I have compared anyway, cheaper than HD for better stuff. No kidding.
-- Andy Barss