I would put an asterisk on Ace and have to put them on par with True Value's level of hardware store. Ace Hardware can vary from store to store for size and the goods on hand.
I think it’s also noteworthy that Ace and True Value are examples of an entirely different class of business.
Home Depot, Lowe’s, Menards, 84 Lumber, and several other regional home improvement retailers are chains of corporate-owned locations—with locations sited, designed, and managed by a single corporate parent that’s steering the company.
On the other hand, Ace, True Value, Do It Best, and probably a few others are not corporate-owned chains but instead retailer-owned cooperatives. Essentially, your neighborhood “Mabel’s Ace Hardware” is a local business, likely owned and operated by someone who lives in your community and would be operating her store independently as “Mabel’s Hardware” if co-ops like Ace didn’t exist. Mabel buys into the Ace cooperative, and Ace in turn provides Mabel with lower prices on inventory of hardware and other products, support with marketing and management of her business, and other benefits. But Mabel is still an independent business owner, and within certain limits specificed by Ace, she can set her own hours, plan her own store layout, decide what products and services she wants to offer, and so on.