Archive for the News from Sneade’s Home Center Category

See yourself here?  What a great way to relax and enjoy all of the beautiful tidal areas on the Chesapeake Bay and on the Patuxent River!  Check out our sweet deals on all of our in-stock kayaks.  Purchase a $149.99 to $399.99 kayak* and receive an Ace Gift Card instantly.  Purchase a  $400.99 and above kayak* and receive a $100 Ace Gift Card instantly.   (Ace Gift Cards to be used on future purchase not on kayak purchase.)  Hurry these sweet deals end 9/15/13.  Available on in-stock models only. Click Here to see our New Kayak Page for all of our kayak choices.

Kamado Joe grill keeps the heat in the grill and the moisture in the meat!     The well-insulated ceramic body of a Kamado Joe grill keeps the heat in the grill. The unique circular shape of the vessel also circulates the heat for more uniform and effective cooking. Compare this with gas grills, which let heat escape and cook largely from below. This means they need a larger fire and more total heat to achieve the same temperature profile as a Kamado Joe. It’s this excessive heat that robs moisture from your meat. Kamado Joe keeps the heat in the

Click on the cover below to open and read the Ace Homeplace magazine 2014 Spring Edition.

For a seventh consecutive year, Ace Hardware ranks highest in satisfying home improvement retail store customers. Ace Hardware achieves a score of 803 on a 1,000-point scale and performs particularly well in the staff and service and store facility factors. Menards ranks second with a score of 770, and performs particularly well in the price and sales and promotions factors. The study, now in its seventh year, measures customer satisfaction with home improvement retail stores based on performance in five factors: staff and service (including availability, courtesy, knowledge, ease of checkout and ease of returning merchandise); store facility (including ease

Ace’s Platinum Performance Retailing (PPR) achievement program provides merchandising initiatives as well as operational training and guidelines designed to help Ace stores offer superior customer service, improve sales and overall store performance. “Our Five-Star Platinum Ace stores deliver best-in-class customer service in their local communities each and every day,” said Kane Calamari, Ace Hardware’s vice president of retail operations and new business. “We’re pleased to recognize Sneade’s Ace Home Center and its associates for their outstanding achievements, and proud to say they’re a part of the Ace family.” Stores that achieve Ace’s Five-Star Platinum designation undertake a number of initiatives

EISA mandates screw-based light bulbs that will use fewer watts for similar light output. Standards are technology neutral; any type of bulb (CFL, LED, etc.) can be sold provided it meets the efficiency requirements. Common household light bulbs that traditionally use between 40 and 100 watts will use at least 27% less energy by 2014. EISA applies to the manufacture date and began with 100-watt bulbs in January 2012. It will work its way through the 75W and 60W bulbs, and end with 40-watt bulbs in January 2014. (California began the transition one year earlier.) 2011 Bulbs         After EISA         EISA