“I live in a rural area, and the nearest town with a chain store other than a dollar store is 40 miles away-”
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Unlike you I am very close to big-box-stores and upscale malls.
I do most of my shopping on-line because I have always DETESTED shopping.
I even shop on line for groceries and have them delivered.
It’s like dying and going to heaven for me——and I’m sure there are many more who feel the same way.
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Even when I lived in the burbs before MrT5 and I got work out here, I avoided the big boxes except when I could not get something anyplace else-the mall I avoided altogether once I no longer had a kid at home...
The nearest big boxes are a WalMart and a Home Depot almost 40 miles away in a town of 6000 in the next county-I’ve been there twice in the past year-I buy my work stuff from Home Depot online...
It’s like the glory days of Sears & Roebuck except you place your order on a computer rather than mailing it in. You can’t buy a gun and have it sent in the mail now though, or a flamethrower or a lot of other things I can’t think of at the moment.