My Story: A few weeks ago I was at the Mall buying a gift for a friend which gift I found in the Williams Sonoma store. I also saw they had small coffee grinders, something that's been on my list for ages. So I bought one. Cuisinart. Seemed a good brand, I thought. After using up all the ground coffe I had on hand I finally opened the box the other day. Put in the beans. Pressed the button. Nothing. Tried it in several different outlets. Nothing. Dead as a doornail. Disgusted, I took the thing back to Williams Sonoma two days ago, making sure everyone behind me in the line heard of my disappointment in being sold defective merchandise in an upscale store. They immediately credited my credit card the full amount, so no problem there. The same day I was near an Ace hardware store and I thought, I really need a coffee grinder, have nothing but beans and my head hurts from caffeine withdrawal. So I went in and bought this nice little grinder that works beautifully. AND I paid ten dollars less. After the fact I did my homework on the Internet and found that (lucky me) Krups is the number one recommended brand of small coffee grinder!
Moral of the story: whatever you need, the hardware store probably has it. (And freshly ground coffee is out-of-this-world.)
