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LOCAL RETAILER • Ace Hardware
THE OSIDER SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2022
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OCEANSIDE ACE HARDWARE
WORDS: AARON SCHMIDT PHOTOS: ZACH CORDNER
Located at 263 South Coast Highway, Ace Hardware is the home of your helpful hardware man (or person). Owner Logan McEniry first started working for Ace Hardware when he was just sixteen years old. He worked at a location off Poinsettia and was employed there for about four years. That store closed down around the same time as COVID, so Logan would eventually move on to the Oceanside location.
“I told the owners that if you ever wanted to sell the place, I've never had a bad day of work in my life and that I loved the business aspect of it and just working here,” said Logan. “We’ve been open about three months now. I graduated college, commissioned into the Marine Corps, and bought the store all within a week of each other.”
Ace Hardware kind of sells everything. “We have over 45,000 items in our store, not including all our nuts and bots. We sell everything from paint, housewares, small appliances, décor, hardware, tools, plumbing, electrical, and gardening.” Their two top departments are Benjamin Moore paint— Ace Hardware is the only one in Oceanside that sells it. And they also sell barbeques—a ton of them. Ace sells all your big grills.
When it comes to special services, Ace has got you covered. “We cut thousands of keys a year. We can also do car keys. We also do window screening so we make new ones or rescreen existing frames for windows. Then we also do free assembly and delivery with all of our barbeques. And what about gardening? “We have gardening tools, pesticides, and soil—we just don’t have plants.”
In terms of the future, Logan has his sights set on the prize. “We're just going to expand our services and really connect with the community. And we also trying to get our B2B plan together. We just recently put in a new Milwaukee tool section, so we really trying to get back to that “made in America” brand.
Owner Logan McEniry
Oceanside Ace Hardware 263 South Coast Highway (760) 231-1431 @osideace
