ACE Hardware house brand products....

They wanted $75 to cut the simpler chip key , which I got cut elsewhere for $24. Their stuff is poor quality and $$$. I guess that having 6 old farts helping you justifies the price.

Funny you bring this up. When we first moved out here in 2002, The Ace of Gray was one of the nicest stores around. They had an "old fart" in every department that knew their department forwards and backwards and enough about the departments that "weren't theirs" to get the job done if they were short handed. "Mr Buddy" (RIP) as we knew him for instance, knew all there was to know about what electrical wire could take what load, how to run for correct county code, more than you'd ever wanna know about pluming, pipe threads and fittings.....you name it. Now they've all been replaced by kids barely out of high school who have no experience with anything. Nuthin. I think it's a corporate America thing, because O'Reilly has become the same way. They just basically forced another older guy out at the store where I worked. Good friend of mine. They hired a girl that knows not one damned iota about cars or parts and she damn well lets everybody know it. God help the customer that doesn't know what they want ahead of time.