Shopping in Pueblo

In true family style, brothers Nick and Kirby Kuklenski own and operate two “sister” Ace Hardware stores in Colorado Springs, keeping local homes beautiful with name-brand products and services. Lawns grow thick and colorful with Scotts fertilizers, plants, and seeds from the shops’ lawn departments, whereas computerized color matching in the paint aisles keeps outsides as vibrantly hued as flowers in a garden or a house fly strolling across an artist’s palette. Collections of DeWalt and Craftsman hand and power tools help homeowners assemble Webster grills, with staffers standing at the ready to build any piece bought at the store. Even autos can get in on Ace Hardware’s helpful services: keys are cut onsite, with Sidewinder keys including built-in chips that interact with car computers to ensure proper starts without feeding vehicles buckets of floppy disks.

Using an iPhone with a cracked screen is like texting your mother from a pay-phone; it just won't work. But fortunately The Mac Corner’s cadre of expert technicians settle pristine panes of glass into iPhone and iPad frames, rendering the devices practically good as new. Beyond replacing scratched and shattered glass, the shop also repairs Apple gadgets’ worn batteries, wonky software, and other maladies, many of which can be fixed within an hour. The Mac Corner also sells refurbished laptop and desktop computers, iPods, and other gizmos while buying used devices for future fixer-upping.