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Originally Posted by notorious
I am at the point where I purposely pay more at other stores.
If I can avoid chinesium, even better.
We used to have Gibsons, Alco, Kmart, Target, and others. Circuit City, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Ultimate, etc. Dillons, Albertons, Safeway....
Now it's one monolith box store, one monolith internet store, and generally one monolith grocery store.
Sigh.
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We're getting a new oven.
$3,000 purchase being made sight-unseen because stores just don't carry stuff like that in stock anymore.
Consumers kinda dug their own graves in a lot of ways. I can't imagine buying appliances without ever being able to so much as pull the handle to see if it feels cheap is what folks had in mind when they started shopping online but that's where we are now.
We're seeing less inventory and more of that sort of purchasing with cars as well.
I really don't care for it at all.