To the person who noticed our prices are higher than the big boxes: yes they are. We cannot compete on prices. We offer convenience and service and a relationship with the people who work at the store. We offer a hub of neighborhood conversation. We offer an alternative to the things we aren’t and we offer a connection to Mount Pleasant. I constantly tell my customers that raise the issue of price that if they want to save money, please, at the very least, count the cost of your time, the cost of your frustration at the big boxes and the cost of transportation into your equation. If you are buying hundreds of dollars of stuff, perhaps there is a cost savings and you might consider a big box.

Please, all of us, keep this in mind: The real cost of shopping at the big boxes regularly will be a loss of our treasured neighborhood stores. By shopping locally, with independent businesses, you keep us in business.

Even if you shop at the big boxes regularly, and only use us in emergencies or for the really small stuff, imagine those emergencies in the absence of stores like us. Not only would it be an even greater pain, but a neighborhood without neighborhood stores would be a bleak neighborhood indeed.

Thanks so much for all of your support – especially to the Prince of Petworth.

Sincerely,

Todd Pfeiffer
owner
Pfeiffer’s Hardware

All I get a Home Depot is a headache and a reminder why I DON’T want to get my hardware from the worst store in town.

Todd and the guys are great. I have often gone in with only an inkling of what I’m hoping to do at home and the guys help me come up with a plan.

That’s what a real, neighborhood hardware store can do.

They’re open 7 days a week, man.

Whaddya’ mean never open?

As for the prices, Pfeiffer’s doesn’t have the same economy-of-scale advantage as Home Despot but most often the difference is negligible. And as for being closed on Memorial Day, um, gee, if you really want to boycott establishments that have the audacity to give their employees holidays off, well, knock yourself out. Please.

Prices – sometimes better, sometimes not. Still, I find it WELL worth paying the slight difference to get something close to home that is what I want, as opposed to driving (and paying for gas) out of my way to maybe get something that might resemble a bit what I want.

dc dude, indeed, many of our local stores, especially the hardware stores, convince me to shop with them by being easily accessible, stocking what I want at fair prices, and stocking things targeted to the neighborhood. This is why I have yet to set foot in DC-USA. I don’t need all that crap. I just need my basics.