Your "real hardware store" or lumberyard for contractors definitely has them.

Ask a store to stay open till one minute past 5:00 PM and they act like you just asked for their firstborn.The entitlement mentality has got to go.

This is true for certain retail but not all.Retail is actually picking up speed.The issue isn't the stores are not doing sales.The issue is they built a really big footprint and then things went online not requiring the same space anywhere.Retail development has downsized more now for many aspects.Brick and mortar is not going away but evolving.

Just locate some vendor local to you using the internet, then go into the bricks-and-mortar store to buy.

He doesn't add in the two rentable garages, which are currently being used by the Gideons, my father let them store Bibles in there for free.

I buy most of my materials from the big box stores. 

It is much more feasible that this was holy water being stored to fend off vampires.  

Sounds like you bought a defective unit and didn't stick a thermometer in it (hint: a refrigerator thermometer is just a few dollars at the big box stores) to verify operation.

None of your information is stored on your mobile device.

The bottom floor is a retail store.