When you wanna support local business but...

1. 2017-11-19 at 6:51 PM UTC

   #1
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   A new chain just opened up way closer and sells what you want 20% cheaper than your fav store.
   
   What do you do?
2. 2017-11-19 at 7:38 PM UTC

   #2
   

   Grimace motherfucker [my enumerable hindi guideword]
   Depends. Has your local store always been good to you? Have they gone out of their way to help you at all? I'd pay the higher price for better service or even just to support a local business than some chain store pop up. Ya dig?
3. 2017-11-19 at 8:19 PM UTC

   #3
   Malice Naturally Camouflaged
   Remain a rational actor and avoid shattering sacrosanct economic theory.
4. 2017-11-19 at 9:19 PM UTC

   #4
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   steal it from the chain store then give your local business $20
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5. 2017-11-19 at 9:44 PM UTC

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   infinityshock Black Hole

   Originally posted by Wick Sweat A new chain just opened up way closer and sells what you want 20% cheaper than your fav store.
   
   What do you do?

   
   i try to support the local-owned shops as much as i can and would never shoplift from one. not that i shoplift anyways...but if i did id focus on the uber-national-jedifest ones and filch the juden stockholder silly.
   
   there was a 'small' hardware store that i used to frequent near where i live. the prices were absurd compared to what the items would be online or at a uber-national-jedifest-boxstore...but to their credit they stocked items that werent stocked anywhere else, including the local-owned ace-hardware, and they generally had higher quality merchandise. i would literally hold off on certain purchases so i could get them at this place when i was near it. the other aspect of it that i 'liked' was it had been in business since...like...the 40's when it was literally the only building for miles...and the architecture/layout was dated but homey. it was staffed by a bunch of geriatrics that had worked there since probably the 40s. fast forward to a couple of years ago and a fucking jedi-fest-soopermegadooper chain store (lowes) opened up about two miles away and within a year this hardware store folded. needless to say...if i ever decided to shoplift...which i never would...id make sure to never go into that store without coming out with something expensive that accidentally fell into one of my pockets and unintentionally didnt make it through the self-checkout. woops.
   
   ace hardware, too...the ones near where i live are all local-owners so i try to buy stuff there instead of lowes/homo-depot. they also stock stainless steel plumbing fittings which i use the shit out of.
6. 2017-11-19 at 9:44 PM UTC

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   infinityshock Black Hole

   Originally posted by greenplastic steal it from the chain store then give your local business $20

   
   that.
7. 2017-11-20 at 1:26 AM UTC

   #7
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by Grimace Depends. Has your local store always been good to you? Have they gone out of their way to help you at all? I'd pay the higher price for better service or even just to support a local business than some chain store pop up. Ya dig?

   
   They've just been alright. When I went to the nearby chain store I was greeted by a non friendly woman who asked me what I wanted right away. She walked me over to it then back to the register and I signed up for their club with my email address. I saved $6.