Southeast South Dakota News

A new Ace Hardware store will celebrate its opening Friday through Sunday in Elk Point, S.D.

The new Elk Point Ace Hardware store, located at 609 W Main St., Elk Point, S.D., will bring the company’s unique combination of personal, knowledgeable and helpful service combined with quality home maintenance knowledge and products to Elk Point residents.

The store was designed to represent the needs of the Elk Point community, including solutions to everyday home maintenance issues in addition to an wide array of high-quality products in categories such as paint, lawn and garden.

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

The store is full of thousands of important products and supplies, including some of the most admired brand names and top selling items to aid people in taking care of their homes. Main product offerings are paint, lawn and garden, hardware, electrical, plumbing, automotive and home décor, in addition to unique products including Yeti, Scotts, STIHL, Big Green Egg, Milwaukee, Ben Moore, Traeger and Weber.

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. In 2014, Ace ranked “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Home Improvement Retail Stores, Eight Years in a Row,” according to J.D. Power. With more than 5,500 hardware stores locally owned and operated across the globe, Ace is the largest hardware cooperative in the industry. 

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. Ace retail stores are located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and approximately 60 countries. For more information on Ace, visit www.acehardware.com.