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Since nobody actually answered the question: Menards is a massive hardware store chain in the Midwest. When I say it's massive, it has everything you could ever need in a hardware store and more. Like there are usually multiple floors, a lumber yard, highly specialized sections, and even a small grocery section with food, pet supplies, clothing, etc. it's definitely the greatest hardware store ever conceived, but unfortunately the man who owns them is batshit crazy in classic Wisconsin fashion.
Menards used to be way cheaper than Home Depot but now they're about the same except Home Depots are usuallymuch cleaner
I've heard bad shit about where Menards money goes and I know for a fact Home Depot donates to batshit gay conversion bullshit so I only buy at Lowe's if I can.
Yeah the Menards owner is a huge republican asshole. Lowe’s is def the best as far as their politics.
You forgot the piano, and the skilled person who is sometimes playing said piano.
Last time I went to the one in St Paul the pianist was doing Steely Dan covers and it was awesome
Aww man I’ve never been to a two-floor+ Menards :( none of the ones around me are (they do have the lumber loft but that hardly counts).
Now I feel like I’m missing out.
The Menards close to me has a second floor of their lighting section. That's the only really accessible second level to non-employees though.
As someone who's grown up in the Midwest, Menards used to be just a hardware store/lumber yard but in the last 15-20 years really has branched out to more than just a hardware store. Hence the home goods, pet supplies, clothing, groceries, appliances, etc in addition to the hardware store/lumber yard bit. In some ways it's a lot more like Fleet Farm than it is like Home Depot, though Menard's doesn't have the farming supplies and tractor parts and stuff like that which can be found at a Fleet Farm.
Since they made this change, the newer and remodeled stores are the ones with the multiple floors since they need all the floor space. But I remember some of the original and smaller stores were also multiple floors (electrical was typically upstairs), but those might be all gone by now. The one we went to when I was a kid wouldn't be anyway close to being ADA compliant today. That store moved locations and the old building is long gone now.