But those are not the products you would buy at Wal-Mart, when you need a new toaster or tv, where do you go?
What your bank didn't push this trinket at you? /sarc>
If it's a major appliance, you can go someplace like this
here. You may not have been in Alaska long enough to remember McKay's hardware down behind Chilkoot Charlie's, but it was the kind of place where anything off-the-wall mechanically could be found. In the Anchorage/Eagle river area, I normally shop Fred Meyer, AIH, B&J's.
I miss Gary King's Sporting Goods most of all in the sporting goods section for Anchorage. Gary's was always service orientated, and a great contributor to the ski world in Alaska when they were big.