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You can buy a (rather expensive) scale model of a Menards in Menards. (i.imgur.com)

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[-] als 24 points 3 weeks ago

wtf is a Menards

[-] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago

Menards are stuck to methighs

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 41 points 3 weeks ago

its what a pirate shouts when you kick him in the crotch

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

A pirate is at a party and a fellow party-goer notices the pirate has a wheel in his pants.

"What's the wheel for," they ask the pirate.

"Arr," replies the pirate, "I don't know, but it be drivin' me nuts."

[-] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 29 points 3 weeks ago

Since nobody actually answered the question: Menards is a massive hardware store chain in the Midwest. When I say it's massive, it has everything you could ever need in a hardware store and more. Like there are usually multiple floors, a lumber yard, highly specialized sections, and even a small grocery section with food, pet supplies, clothing, etc. it's definitely the greatest hardware store ever conceived, but unfortunately the man who owns them is batshit crazy in classic Wisconsin fashion.

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

You forgot the piano, and the skilled person who is sometimes playing said piano.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Last time I went to the one in St Paul the pianist was doing Steely Dan covers and it was awesome

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Aww man I’ve never been to a two-floor+ Menards :( none of the ones around me are (they do have the lumber loft but that hardly counts).

Now I feel like I’m missing out.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The Menards close to me has a second floor of their lighting section. That's the only really accessible second level to non-employees though.

[-] toddestan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As someone who's grown up in the Midwest, Menards used to be just a hardware store/lumber yard but in the last 15-20 years really has branched out to more than just a hardware store. Hence the home goods, pet supplies, clothing, groceries, appliances, etc in addition to the hardware store/lumber yard bit. In some ways it's a lot more like Fleet Farm than it is like Home Depot, though Menard's doesn't have the farming supplies and tractor parts and stuff like that which can be found at a Fleet Farm.

Since they made this change, the newer and remodeled stores are the ones with the multiple floors since they need all the floor space. But I remember some of the original and smaller stores were also multiple floors (electrical was typically upstairs), but those might be all gone by now. The one we went to when I was a kid wouldn't be anyway close to being ADA compliant today. That store moved locations and the old building is long gone now.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

It's a sort of hardware store that absorbed a Walmart.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

a midwestern knockoff of a lowes with some extra product selection you'd find at a walmart or farm store; owned by a far-right, anti-union billionaire.

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wtf is a lowes?

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lowe's is a huge chain of pretty good hardware stores in the US. It seems like all the other big names support terrible politics so I always try to go to Lowe's unless I can't find something there and have to go somewhere else. And I go a lot for work.