Local hardware store has
prices in dollars that I can only envision in Pesos.

I think we must have the same local hardware store. Hinge I needed at local
hardware was $4, at Lowe's 20 miles one way away $1.40. Local's explanation
" if you go to the city to get it you will spend more in gas, get something
to eat and wind up spending more on it anyway in the long run". I needed 10
of the things so even with gas and eats it would be cheaper to go to town.
Local hardware has a mail flyer put out somewhere else and they never have
the items in stock, but can get them in next Thursday if you pay shipping,
only game within 20 miles so he stays open.