Jay’s Ace Hardware Inc.

Specialties

We are a full-​service hardware store that strives to provide the best in customer service. For your shopping convenience, we want to welcome you to our online store where you can purchase 70,000 items available for overnight delivery. If you want to purchase a product that cannot be delivered by UPS, stop in or call our store to purchase the product. If we do not stock the item, one of our friendly employees will be happy to special order the item for you.

History

Established in 1992.

With a dream of being to a hometown one stop shop, Jay Bullock started this hardware store after working for another hardware retailer for 10 years. Starting as a small 3,000 sq. ft. store to a current 12,000 sq. ft. store he has always kept his customers in mind in products and shoppablity of his store. Now as his son, Preston Bullock is becoming a partner after growing up in the business he will help to continue to lead the business to better customer service and the right products to keep Jay’s that one stop shop!

Meet the Business Owner

Jay B.

Business Owner

Jay’s opened March 1, 1992 in this same location. The original building has been added on to on both sides and twice on to the back. What started as 6,000 square feet is today 14,000 square feet of shopping space. Seasonally we use an outside area of about half that size. But if you shop here — you already know all that!

Let me tell you how it all got started!

One night I had a dream. In the dream I saw this store building with a small, cardboard, handwritten sign «For Rent» and a phone number for someone I knew. Then the dream fast-​forwarded and we were running this store. There was lumber and stuff all over the front yard and lots of people coming and going. My wife and children were all working there.

In the morning, as I drove to my job at Avera Industrial in Wrens, I thought of my dream. I don’t dream every night but when I do dream it usually happens to me. I rolled this over in my mind and wondered where I’d seen that building. As I crossed the railroad tracks on