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CHECKBOOK provides:
- Award winning articles and reports of over 4,800 firms, compiled from more than 197,000 consumer ratings by Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports magazine subscribers who have used these companies and professionals.
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- Read CHECKBOOK's free advice on choosing a local hardware store.
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Bay Area Consumers' CHECKBOOK (CHECKBOOK.org) will save you trouble, time, and money. It's the independent, non-profit, no-advertising source of ratings and advice on hundreds of types of services you use in your everyday life. See list of services covered.
CHECKBOOK only publishes ratings for a specific firm when an adequate number of ratings of that firm (sample size) is reached. Therefore, not all firms in a given category will appear in CHECKBOOK's ratings tables. |
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Standard Plumbing Ace Hardware, San Francisco, CA |
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Brownie's Ace Hardware, San Francisco, CA |
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Cliff's Variety Store, San Francisco, CA |
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Cole Hardware, San Francisco, CA |
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J & J True Value Hardware, San Francisco, CA |
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Great Wall Hardware, San Francisco, CA |
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Center Hardware & Supply, San Francisco, CA |
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Handy Handyman Ace Hardware, San Francisco, CA |
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Cole Hardware, San Francisco, CA |
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Crown Hardware, San Francisco, CA |
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CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).
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As You Can See Below, Some Hardware Stores Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Hardware Stores.
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Subscriber from SANTA CLARA, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
Staffers are especially responsive and want to solve your problems........
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Subscriber from BERKELEY, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
A very good local hardware store. The place to go if you are not sure..........
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Subscriber from KENSINGTON, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
Have been in business many years and have excellent selection of products. Most importantly, have..........
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Subscriber from LOS ALTOS, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
Going through changes, so service is a bit uneven lately - its great when its..........
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Subscriber from NEWARK, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
Very knowledgable sales people. Large selection of products. Almost always has what I need........
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Subscriber from MENLO PARK, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
Best selection of cabinet hardware in the bay area.......
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Subscriber from MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
What a magnificient hardware store........
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Subscriber from SAN JOSE, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
Smallish store with somewhat limited variety, but they stock the basic items and the staff..........
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Subscriber from SAN FRANCISCO, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
I try to give them as much business as I can because I know theyre..........
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Subscriber from MENLO PARK, CA wrote about a local hardware store:
Excellent neighborhood hardware store. Excellent advice. They even have Wahlets!.......
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