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I love ace and try to patronize my local small town store as much as possible. Online shopping however is a drag. The app tells me something is available locally for home delivery tomorrow and after I purchase I’m told it will be delivered a week or more out. Huh? These are not hard to find items - a can of white fence stain, a circular saw blade, etc. The poor correspondence between the app’s knowledge of my store’s inventory and actual inventory (at least I assume that’s the problem rather) has made online ordering a fail for me - I deleted the app and have reluctantly moved on to a local big box store where their app is right most of the time. The search function is also awful. You have to know exactly what you want before it finds something close. Vocabulary is too controlled with too few synonyms. If I don’t know the exact name for something I’ll go to a bigger store’s app to search then enter the exact name in the ace app. This really defeats the purpose of a hardware store. You’d think they’d make more of an effort to build a broad dictionary if they want to make it easy to shop. Try looking for the hardware used to wrap curtain pulls around, for example. It’s really too bad I would love to support my local Ace esp. during the pandemic.

Now more than ever I want to support my local ace Hardware! But searching on this app is difficult. How can I see what’s in stock and available? Multiple times I’ve made a choice for a product then to find I can’t add to my cart. Get it together Ace! How is your app rated so high? I’ve moved several purchases to other businesses because your app. Adding; once I found something I could purchase. I went to the store for pick up and had no clue where to go. I called the number to the local store and the person really didn’t know either. Then half of my order was there and half wasn’t. I don’t have any idea when the other part of my order will arrive and the “pick up guy” didn’t either. He was looking everywhere for the other half of my order. You are my favorite hardware store but you are DROPPING THE BALL. UP The Technology for this app. I got your note about demand being high. I understand. But I didn’t have this issue with your competitors. Innovate. If you want to give me $100 in something make it something other than magazines. That just makes me feel like you’re out of touch. Are you selling my info to a 3rd party for Magazines? Magazines. HAHA

V2.0.10 I rarely review apps but the search feature is terrible. You must know exactly what you are looking for and sometimes that doesn’t even do it. Just one example: searching for Killzall 365 weed killer. I search for killzall 365, killzall, kill-zall... I happen to remember that it says hi-yield at the top of the bottle so, I search for hi-yield killzall 365...so far no search results...finally I type in just ‘hi-yield’ and I get a category with 83 products in it that I then have to scroll through and find the product. How is this product listed? ‘ Hi-Yield Killzall 365 Grass & Weed Killer RTU Liquid 1 gal.’ so why does it not find it? You guys are losing business over this because it appears within your own app that you do not even carry this product or much of anything else. I love my local Ace hardwares but if I am looking for something specific then I want to know if they have it or not before wasting my time. Fix this. It can’t be that hard to fix and it shouldn’t be that hard to search for something!