—”John Menard Jr., founder of Menards, $14.2 billion”
Menards is my go-to hardware store, for many reasons.
Home Depot, used to hire retired tradespeople and pay more, long ago... no more. Now nobody knows about anything.
I needed an oddball combination of adapters to get from an ancient bathroom sink faucet to a garden hose. I think over a million possible combinations?
A young female clerk, mostly covered in tattoos came to my assistance.
She said she knew what I needed and in a few minutes, she found exactly what I needed! Thank you, Mr. Menard and your clerks!!!
We use Menard’s almost exclusively for home repairs/improvements, too. I agree with the help being excellent!
I discovered the Behr brand of paints (with primer in it!) at ‘Home Despot,’ though. I never use any other interior paint brand, now. Love the stuff! And I have painted the entire interiors of THREE homes in the past 5 years!
(We used Sherwin-Williams for exterior because that’s what our house painter wanted, and they had the ‘historic’ colors I wanted.)