Rick's Ace Hardware

Serving the St. Louis Area Since 1956

Welcome

Welcome to Rick's Ace Hardware, where helpful Teammates, a Low Price Guarantee, and free popcorn are everyday occurrences.

Rick Baalmann

Rick Baalmann

Our Mission

We at Rick's Ace believe that Customer Service is our #1 priority. Whether it's finding the pet aisle or having keys cut, we strive to be the best. Our Teammates are trained to answer your questions and give you help. Our mission is to be the BEST, MOST HELPFUL Hardware Stores in our Market through the 4 C's:

Rick's Guarantee

If you are not completely satisfied with your Shopping Experience we will make it right! We will meet or beat any competitor's current advertised price - just bring in the ad so we can identify the merchandise. Rick Baalmann Signature

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Products

With so many products and brands to choose from, Rick's Ace Hardware is certainly your one stop-shopping place.

Milwaukee Tool

All our stores carry durable & versatile hand tools, power tools, and equipment from Milwaukee Tool. We carry screwdrivers, hammer drills, impact drivers, sawzalls, chainsaws, and more. Ace is the place to pick up tools for your next project.

Since 1924 Milwaukee Tool has developed reliable tools for construction, jobsites, and skilled trades. Find out more online or visit your local Rick's Ace Hardware today.

Milwaukee Tool

EGO Lawn Equipment

EGO is the #1 rated battery powered platform for cordless lawn equipment. Every tool exceeds the power of gas - without the noise, fuss or fumes. Featuring the most advanced battery technology, EGO tools run longer and perform better. Designed to handle the toughest conditions, EGO tools also offer an ergonomic design to ensure balance and comfort. EGO POWER+ products come with a 5-year warrenty on tools and 3-year warrenty on batteries. Visit the official website or shop today.

EGO Official

Benjamin Moore Paint

All our stores carry interior paint, exterior paint, and primer from Benjamin Moore. We provide color swatches and computerized color matching. Pickup the tools & sundries needed for your next painting project including tarps, trays, rollers, and brushes.

Ace is the place for painters, contractors, and home improvers. Visit the Benjamin Moore website for more ideas or stop by Ace Hardware and ask our helpful teammates for advice.

Benjamin Moore Paint

Ooni Pizza Ovens

Portable pizza ovens by Ooni are now in stock at all stores. These ultra-high heat, multi-fuel ovens are great for the kitchen, backyard, or outdoors. Choose wood, charcoal, pellets, gas, or electric. With any fuel you'll get great stone-baked pizzas with perfect toppings and a crisp base.

Ooni ovens reach 850-950°F in under 20 minutes. Once heated they cook pizzas in 60-90 seconds. Read more online or shop pizza ovens at your local Ace Hardware today.

Ooni Pizza Ovens

Weber Grills

All stores carry Weber gas and charcoal grills. Weber Spirit and Genesis gas grills work with liquid propane and natural gas. Weber kettle grills are the iconic solution for charcoal cooking. Now in stock: weber slate griddles. The flat-top griddle provides fast, even, edge-to-edge heat.

Weber first introduced its iconic kettle grill in 1952 and is a leading brand in barbecue. Weber grills are designed and manufactured in Illinois with rigorous quality control. Learn more online or pickup a grill for your next barbecue today.

Weber

Big Green Egg

Big Green Egg is now available at our Des Peres MO, Ellisville MO, Town & Country MO, and Highland IL locations. Derived from an ancient clay cooker called a kamado, the Big Green Egg has undergone many improvements since it was introduced in 1974. It is a smoker, a grill, and an oven. You can cook any food on it all year round, from appetizers to entrees to desserts.

Find recipes and ideas on the official website, or stop by to see what the deal is in person.

Big Green Egg

Traeger Ironwood

Forged from commercial grade stainless steel and packing next-gen grilling features, the Traeger Ironwood grill was born for those looking to elevate their craft. Control and monitor temperature from anywhere on your smartphone with this WiFi enabled grill. Use Traeger's Super Smoke mode to blast your food with 100% hardwood smoke. Variable speed fan and auger provide optimal wood smoke production for finest hardwood flavor. Visit the official website for details or stop by today.

Traeger Grills

Stanley Quencher

Stanley Quencher travel tumblers are the portable & stylish solution for all-day hydration. The quencher features a three-position lid and straw. Rotate the lid to straw opening, drink spout, or closed.

The quencher body is BPA-free, stainless steel. It's dishwasher safe and in stock at all Rick's Ace Hardware stores. Check out the Stanley Quencher website for more information, or stop by and pick one out today.

Stanley Quencher

YETI Coolers & Drinkware

Explore the diverse range of Yeti products now in stock at Rick's Ace Hardware. Find hard coolers, soft coolers, drinkware, bags, outdoor gear, or accessories perfect for your next trip.

Yeti coolers and drinkware are durable, extremely insulated, and easy to clean. Visit the official website for more information or stop by and browse today.

YETI Official

Nora Fleming

Now at Town & Country: Nora Fleming serving trays, plates, snack boards, holders, dishes, and miniatures. These items help create the perfect spread. Combine neutral platters with colorful minis alternated for different seasons and occasions.

Find a great gift or update your servingware for the next event. Learn more online or stop by our Town & Country store to browse the collection.

Nora Fleming

Candles

Now at Town & Country: Tyler Candles and Capri Blue. Tyler Candles come in elegant glass jars, have long burn times, and make excellent gifts. Find your favorite scent for bedrooms, breakfast rooms, lofts, great rooms, parties, or baths.

With Capri Blue candles fashion meets fragrance. Volcano candles have the perfect blend of sugared citrus and tropical fruits. Visit the Capri Blue website or stop by our Town & Country store today.

Capri Blue

Additional Brands

We carry the brands you trust, in order to deliver the quality products our customers deserve. Stop in Rick's Ace Hardware today to find your favorite brands and ask our sales associates for recommendations on your next purchase.

Departments

Visit the your local Rick's Ace Hardware to find the perfect appliances, grills, gifts, and speciality products.

Appliances

Rick's Ace Hardware now carries Whirlpool and Maytag appliances at our Highland and Centralia locations. Whirlpool and Maytag offer appliances to make life a little easier and are thoughtfully designed to care for your family.

Come visit Rick's Ace Hardware in Highland and Centralia when updating your home, kitchen, and laundry to browse our appliances.

Grills & Patio

Visit our Town & Country store to see multi-burner Mont Alpi island grills made from quality materials including granite and stainless steel. Upgrade your grilling experience with a builtin mini-fridge to keep drinks cold on the patio.

All our stores feature a great selection of grills, smokers, barbeques, and outdoor cookers. We carry great products from Weber, Traegar, Big Green Egg, Blackstone and many more manufacturers. Visit Ace Hardware today to see what's cooking.

Gold Crown Hallmark

Rick's Ace Hardware in Highland Illinois is the perfect store for all your special occasions due to our Hallmark Gold Crown department. Let us help you celebrate your major life events with broad selections of year-round and seasonal gifts. We're proud to offer gifts, cards, and more for holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, showers, baptisms, first communions, confirmations, graduations, and beyond.

Unique Gifts

Our Town & Country store carries unique gifts from Capri Blue, Tyler Candles, Torch Candles, Root Candle, Thymes Fraser Fir, Michel Designs, Nora Fleming and many additional designers. Find great products and gift lines for every occasion.

Browse the gift department at Ace Hardware in Town & Country to find your next present for someone special.

Services

We believe in giving you the helping hand you need, for those services you have come to expect from us.

Rewards Program

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Earn rewards everytime you shop! Get 10 reward points for every $1.00 spent, $5 back for every 2500 reward points, and 1000 points to get started.

Download our mobile app now to recieve a $5 coupon and check your rewards balance. Use our app to store coupons, check promotions, shop thousands of products, earn more points, and redeem rewards faster.

Ace Rewards

New Car Keys

Keystart Car Keys

Getting dealership-quality car keys shouldn't be complicated. Whether you need a spare or a replacement car key copy, we can help. The car key fob replacement process involves programming a specific combination that will allow the transmitter to respond to your vehicle. We can program and replace keys the same day and cover the majority of vehicles on the road today.

Find Your Car

Helpful Hub

We provide a large variety of services including cutting & threading pipes, key cutting, re-keying locks, lawn evaluation, tool sharpening, computerized paint color matching, glass cutting, and screen repair.

Visit the Helpful Hub at your local Rick's Ace Hardware and talk to our teammates about your next project.

Neighborhood Toolbox

Neighborhood Toolbox Program

Borrow. Use. Return. It couldn't get any easier! The next time you need to obtain that seldom-used, expensive to own speciality tool for your current project, visit Ace and ask our store associates about the Neighborhood Toolbox program. They will assist you in checking out the tool you need, which can be returned at full retail price within 48 hours.

Curbside Pickup

Curbside Pickup

Call or text us today. After placing an order, we'll meet you at the curb for free! Rick's Ace Hardware goes the extra mile to make your shopping experience as convenient as possible.

Same Day Delivery

Same Day Delivery

Whatever it is, we'll bring it to you! Try our new Same Day Delivery service. Here's how it works:

Please call or visit a sales associate for details.

Returns & Special Orders

Think you will need to return an item? No hassle! Check store policy at the time of purchase. We will also go the extra mile to help you place a special order for anything not in store. We have over 68,000 items in our 1 million square foot warehouse and a large list of additional vendors to choose from. Special orders can be shipped anywhere; please contact us directly to receive shipping costs.

Community

We strongly believe in community and give back to many charities in our markets. We offer recycling on CFL bulbs and batteries. We also sell many Green products throughout our stores. We work hard to reduce our energy consumption and recycle all of our paper, cardboard, plastic and aluminum. If your charity is interested in partnering with us please contact the local store's manager.

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History

Find out the story behind Rick's Ace Hardware.

Our Hardware History

In 1956 the original Mars-Enders Hardware was purchased by Dick Baalmann and his Partner Bob Perkins. Mars-Enders Hardware had been in business in Brentwood Mo., since 1942. Dick and Bob joined Ace Hardware in 1960 as store #362. Ace has been one of the many keys to our success. Ace is a buying cooperative, so along with more than 4,500 other hardware stores nationwide, we purchase merchandise directly from manufacturers.

This enables us to have competitive pricing and gives us access to almost anything manufactured. Today, Ace supplies us with over 75% of our total inventory!

Over the next 2 decades Dick and Bob grew that 1 small hardware store into a chain of 6 Village Ace Hardware stores serving the St Louis Market. In 1979 Dick and Bob decided to part ways and Dick retained one store in Des Peres Mo.

The Bag Boy

I joined the business as a bagger in our Brentwood store in 1970 at the age of 11. I then worked through high school and college doing everything from cleaning, stocking, loading, ordering and advertising.

In 1982 I joined ACE in a full-time role, first as an Assistant Manager and then was promoted to Store Manager in 1985. In 1986 I rolled out new technology in the Hardware business by computerizing the ordering process based on POS data.

I have served as Chairman of the local Ace Hardware Dealer Group and as a Director for Ace Hardware Corporation. I have at some point or another done just about everything that can be done in this business I am now the Company President and CEO and am committed to making your shopping experience the Best it can be!

Store Growth

We have been successful by opening quality Ace Hardware Stores, which embrace technology and all leading edge programs.

In 1986 Rick and Dick partnered to open a second Store in Centralia IL. We then did a joint venture in 1997 to open a store in Alton IL. In 2000 we moved the Alton location to Town & Country MO. in 2003 we opened our 4th location in Highland IL.

Armed with Dick's philosophy of "Treating Each Customer as Our Best Friend" we continue to grow by dedicating our organization to the needs of our customers. With this in mind we will continue to grow and expand our business so that we continue to be the Best Convenience Hardware stores in the St. Louis Area.

Proven Track Record

The Rick's Ace Hardware Management Team has a combined tenure of over 200 years of Hardware experience. We have a proven track record and have received many awards for outstanding customer service.

We have the best people in the industry with great attitudes and work hard for you our customer every day. Our stores are deep and broad in inventory and focus on the core Hardware, Paint, Plumbing, Electrical, Tool, Garden and appropriate Niche Business.

Locations

No matter which of our stores you visit, you can be sure of great service and friendly smiles to greet you!

Centralia, IL

904 W. Broadway
Centralia, IL 62801
Brooks & Broadway, just East of Fairview Park
Your Paint Center - Contractors Welcome

Mon-Fri
7:30AM - 8:00PM
Saturday
7:30AM - 7:00PM
Sunday
9:00AM - 5:00PM
Directions

Highland, IL

2645 Northtown Way
Highland, IL 62249
Across from Glik Park
Your Painting Headquarters

Mon-Fri
7:30AM - 8:00PM
Saturday
7:30AM - 7:00PM
Sunday
9:00AM - 5:00PM
Directions

Des Peres, MO

11767 Manchester Road
Des Peres, MO 63131
Lindbergh and I-270, 1 block east of Bopp
Visit our Grills & Patio Department

Mon-Fri
7:30AM - 8:00PM
Saturday
7:30AM - 7:00PM
Sunday
9:00AM - 6:00PM
Directions

Ellisville, MO

15870 Clayton Road
Ellisville, MO 63011
Southeast corner of Clarkson & Clayton
Visit our Grills & Patio Department

Mon-Fri
8:00AM - 8:00PM
Saturday
8:00AM - 7:00PM
Sunday
9:00AM - 6:00PM
Directions

Town & Country, MO

221 Lamp & Lantern Village
Town & Country, MO 63017
Northwest corner of Woodsmill & Clayton
Visit our Newly Remodelled Store

Mon-Fri
7:30AM - 8:00PM
Saturday
7:30AM - 7:00PM
Sunday
9:00AM - 6:00PM
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St. Louis The Hill, MO

5437 Southwest Avenue
Saint Louis, MO 63139
Between Macklind and Sublette
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Contact

Contact us at a Rick's Ace Hardware retail location or our corporate office.

Corporate Office

Rick's Ace Hardware
11039 Manchester Rd. Ste. B
Kirkwood, MO 63122

314-966-2589
Rick Baalmann, Owner
answers@acestl.com

Centralia, IL

Rick's Ace Hardware
904 W. Broadway
Centralia, IL 62801

618-532-0062
Ryan Edwards, Manager
ryane2@acestl.com

Highland, IL

Rick's Ace Hardware
2645 Northtown Way
Highland, IL 62249

618-651-1544
Jim Leonard, Manager
jiml4@acestl.com

Des Peres, MO

Rick's Ace Hardware
11767 Manchester Road
Des Peres, MO 63131

314-966-6611
Justin Middleton, Manager
justinm1@acestl.com

Ellisville, MO

Rick's Ace Hardware
15870 Clayton Road
Ellisville, MO 63011

636-220-1255
Carrie Hardeman, Manager
carrieh5@acestl.com

Town & Country, MO

Rick's Ace Hardware
221 Lamp & Lantern Village
Town & Country, MO 63017

636-386-7733
Seth Weller, Manager
sethw3@acestl.com

St. Louis The Hill, MO

Rick's Ace Hardware
5437 Southwest Avenue
Saint Louis, MO 63139

314-919-9913
Coming Soon
vickiej0@acestl.com

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