Stebbins-Anderson

Love wandering through here but absolutely the rudest sales clerk ever. Have seen her in action twice and she always makes me wonder who the customer is.

If I don’t want a single use plastic bag, I mean it. Apparently it is store policy to force customers to add to the degradation of the planet while also selling BPA free water bottles. Not this time. I left the store without my desired item over this issue.

the hardware dept is amazing!!!
i’m going here every week now instead of home cheapot.
a place for everything, and everything in it’s place.
35 more types of every small hardware imaginable. got hinges there that i couldn’t find online. drill bits saw blades screws chain threaded rod stainless steel fasteners, with painted head. just amazing.
wow.

If you shopped at Stebbins Anderson during the «Shop Local» promo on Saturday after Thanksgiving, thru American Express, CHECK your CC statement. Stebbins Anderson put Monday, 11/​26/​2012 as the transaction date not Saturday, 11/​24/​2012, when I shopped. So I didn’t automatically receive the $ 25 credit. Amex did credit me $ 25 but I wonder how many more customers are losing out because Stebbins Anderson sent the WRONG date of the transaction. Bad Business!!!

This is a great local hardware and home store. It’s the anchor store for the Shops at Kenilworth. There are 2 levels. The main level is the hardware store carrying basic hardware, paint, and lawn furniture. Definitely check out the bargain bin — it’s filled with cheap tools and bric-​à-​brac. The 2^nd level is the housewares, gifts and décor. They have little things you may not find anywhere else like unique household cleaners. The sales associates are helpful, too.

Stebbins has always been the odd quirky store that I never quite understood how they stayed in business. Upstairs, it’s home-​decorish with some furniture and gifty stuff. Off to the side, there’s a small housewares department that seems oddly five-​and-​dime-​ish and out of place. Downstairs, it’s a hardware store and garden shop.
Now, the hardware store’s a pretty standard layout and part of the Ace Hardware franchise, with everything you’d expect. It’s just that upstairs part with the furniture, knife sets, candles, and oddly incongruous 6 aisles of domestic supplies. I never got it.
Until recently. I wandered into that little part of the store, and it’s a treasure trove. Spare rubber gaskets for blenders, canning jars, citrus reamers, and hard to find replacement vacuum cleaner belts mix it up with a comprehensive selection of bar glassware. I found stacks of #4-​size manual-​drip filter cone coffee brewers after striking out in a half-​dozen hoity-​toity specialty kitchen and gourmet stores. Me and the wife went in looking for one thing and emerged with an armload of stuff we’ve been searching out for ages.
If you’ve got a strange kitchen widget you’re looking for, or the odd bit of hardware you can’t seem to find in the big-​box places, give Stebbins-​Anderson a try. They’re uncanny.

I love this place because it sells a wide variety of items (hardware, housewares, kitchenware, gifts, garden supplies, etc.) in a friendly and service-​oriented atmosphere. Of course, it’s smaller than a big-​box store, but that’s what makes it so great. The volume of merchandise at huge stores makes it difficult to find what you need and even more difficult to find someone to help you. Stebbins employees are knowledgeable and helpful, and they always have what I need. It’s great when I’m shopping for myself, and it’s also great for gifts.