Santa Clara Today

Ace Hardware has arrived in Los Altos, California, as the city celebrates the grand opening of a new store March 18-20.

Located at 2310 Homestead Rd Ste E, the new Homestead Ace Hardware store in Los Altos will bring "personal, knowledgeable and helpful service" to Ace customers, according to a recent press release.

“Our mission is to provide customers with the neighborly advice and assistance they have come to expect from Ace,” Homestead Ace Hardware said, according to the release. “We look forward to becoming a helpful and valuable neighbor to the community, both inside and outside the walls of our store.”

Solutions to home maintenance needs and providing quality products is the name of the Ace game. Product categories include but are not limited to paint, lawn and garden.

"The store is packed with thousands of essential products and supplies, including some of the most respected brand names and best-selling items to help people take care of their homes," Ace officials say in the release.

Some other key products include electrical, plumbing, automotive and home décor. Yeti, Scotts, STIHL, Big Green Egg, Milwaukee, Ben Moore, Traeger and Weber are some name brands the store offers.

"For 90 years, Ace Hardware has been known as the place with the helpful hardware folks in thousands of neighborhoods across America, providing customers with a more personal kind of helpful," Ace officials said in the release.

Ace ranked 'Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Home Improvement Retail Stores, Eight Years in a Row' by J.D. Power in 2014, according to the release.

There are over 5,500 locally owned and operated hardware stores across the world.

"Ace is the largest hardware cooperative in the industry," Ace officials said in the release. "Headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., Ace and its subsidiaries currently operate 14 distribution centers in the U.S. and also have distribution capabilities in Shanghai, China; Panama City, Panama; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Its retailers’ stores are located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and approximately 60 countries."