Posted on 07/18/2017 9:31:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
>> Best Buy price matches Amazon’s prices.
Same with the major music retailers. And I’d prefer to visit the store especially if the $ is within 10%. Generally, the cost is the same.
I think most retailers match Amazon. Just ask. When I bought some things at Williams Sonoma recently, the matched Amazon. I had to lug it home however ... Amazon delivers it right to my door.
BTW, Amazon Prime delivers over-night, and many items are delivered the next day. Amazon is pretty amazing!!!
I went in to buy a TV from last year and I couldn’t find anyone to help me.
All of which are fine arguments as to why the “shop local” movement is stupid, but it doesn’t change the simple fact that when you big box chain you are very much NOT shopping local.
Smartest thing they did was expand their cell phone service...it’s nice going in and getting a new phone and then having someone completely set it up AND often get up to hundreds in store credit as well.
To repeat: “the people working in the stores are my neighbors”.
Whatever it is, it doesn't sell guns or ammo. Otherwise, it could not possibly be supplanted by Amazon.
Cabela's, on the other hand, sells both, and ate everybody's lunch on ammunition availability in the darkest depths of the Obama Panic.
To repeat: the religion of shop local is specifically AGAINST shopping at the big box stores. Take it up with the religion.
packrat I hear you, I had purchased cameras, appliances, computers, everything from them 10 to 15 years ago, but I eventually came to hate them. Prices too high, stupid reward points scams and no return on computers or electronic devices if you open the box. I began going to hhgregg and anyone else before going there. I clicked on the article because I recall reading how they were going do the tubes years ago. I did return this past fall after probably and ironically 5 years and noticed a difference. Purchased 3 computers for wife and kids and had no problem returning one because the performance just stunk. Like ordering on line then picking up at store in seconds on way home from work or have the wife grab for me. Maybe you should reconsider. PS, the stupid rewards program is still a scam and insulting to their customers.
packrat I hear you, I had purchased cameras, appliances, computers, everything from them 10 to 15 years ago, but I eventually came to hate them. Prices too high, stupid reward points scams and no return on computers or electronic devices if you open the box. I began going to hhgregg and anyone else before going there. I clicked on the article because I recall reading how they were going do the tubes years ago. I did return this past fall after probably and ironically 5 years and noticed a difference. Purchased 3 computers for wife and kids and had no problem returning one because the performance just stunk. Like ordering on line then picking up at store in seconds on way home from work or have the wife grab for me. Maybe you should reconsider. PS, the stupid rewards program is still a scam and insulting to their customers.
packrat I hear you, I had purchased cameras, appliances, computers, everything from them 10 to 15 years ago, but I eventually came to hate them. Prices too high, stupid reward points scams and no return on computers or electronic devices if you open the box. I began going to hhgregg and anyone else before going there. I clicked on the article because I recall reading how they were going do the tubes years ago. I did return this past fall after probably and ironically 5 years and noticed a difference. Purchased 3 computers for wife and kids and had no problem returning one because the performance just stunk. Like ordering on line then picking up at store in seconds on way home from work or have the wife grab for me. Maybe you should reconsider. PS, the stupid rewards program is still a scam and insulting to their customers.
Plus you can still buy at home. If Best Buy isn’t far from your house, it is very easy to order online and pick up in less than an hour.
You think the movement is stupid, yet you bow to their definitions of “local”... That will show em!
I love B&H but they have a terrible return policy. You have pay the shipping and the item is heavy you might as well keep it. It would be OK if they charged you the shipping getting their rates.
Yet Amazon is building its own brick and mortar stores now too.
I like to see, touch and in some cases measure the product before I buy it. I do my research online first but will search out the location of the physical product before I pull the trigger on the purchase
Some of the curve like Best Buy has caught up.
Without their definition it’s a meaningless term. If we’re going to focus on jobs then Amazon is shopping local because they remote employ people pretty much everywhere with halfway decent internet (I know multiple Amazon employees and none of them have ever actually stepped foot in an Amazon building), plus of course the delivery guys are local no matter how you ship. Property taxes have at least as much to do with a company’s skill at negotiating with local government as location. So it’s either the dumb definition or no definition.
So your position is that there is no local benefit from buying at a physically local chain store v.s. over the internet that has no presence anywhere near you? I reject your false position along with the false definition. Local is not a black/white Boolean designation and trying to force it to be that way leads to nonsense.
My position is the corporate world is large and complex and if you’re trying to keep money local you’re spitting in the wind. Even mom and pop get their stuff from somewhere else. The whole thing is just an exercise in virtue signalling. You got the last sentence right though, and frankly that sentence is proof of how stupid the entire issue is. Shop what, where and how you want to shop, and don’t pretend it’s some “investment” in the community. You’re just buying crap.
I could agree with most of that... up until I know someone at the store and value the economic well being of that specific person. But that is more an issue of relationship rather than local. I’m old school and I believe in the value of good business relationships, where the modern world has moved on to treating everything and everyone like replaceable commodities... and then lamenting when they get treated in the same way.
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