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re: Why it's hard to support local retail businesses
Posted on 6/21/18 at 11:50 am to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 6/21/18 at 11:50 am to LSUFanHouston
Yup. Reasons why I don't shop local are usual hours and selection.
As for hardware, most of the time I need something the local store doesn't carry so I go to Lowe's. For example, needed a scraper as I was installing flooring. One of those jobs that looks like a hoe. Got lucky cuz store had exactly one. Saw over a dozen for sale at Lowe's last week
As for hardware, most of the time I need something the local store doesn't carry so I go to Lowe's. For example, needed a scraper as I was installing flooring. One of those jobs that looks like a hoe. Got lucky cuz store had exactly one. Saw over a dozen for sale at Lowe's last week
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Posted on 6/21/18 at 11:51 am to LSUFanHouston
I bet you paid more too.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 11:52 am to LSUFanHouston
Can you mix in a growth regulator with the paint? I bet it could easily half how frequently it has to be sprayed. There’s a lot of PGR’s out there, we used to spray bahia grass with Plateau and would not see another one of those seed heads the rest of the season.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 11:54 am to LSUFanHouston
why shop local? It's absolutely meaningless. The big box chains all employ local people. The only difference is who gets the net profit. Why should I care if that person is local or not?
Shop local is just a marketing scheme by locals to help themselves. Locals would starve you to death in a heartbeat if it made them rich.
Shop local is just a marketing scheme by locals to help themselves. Locals would starve you to death in a heartbeat if it made them rich.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 11:57 am to airfernando
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why shop local?
didn't read all of the posts but noticed references to Ace, they're not really locally owned either
Posted on 6/21/18 at 11:57 am to LSUFanHouston
I have same issue with my local hard ware store.
They close at 5 and on Sundays. Well I do all my protects on Sundays or after five.
They close at 5 and on Sundays. Well I do all my protects on Sundays or after five.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 11:58 am to Napoleon
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I do all my protects on Sundays or after five.
if you're waiting till then to get materials you ain't getting much done on said protects, just sayin'
This post was edited on 6/21/18 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 6/21/18 at 12:04 pm to TigersSEC2010
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Shopping local is often a bigger and more expensive pain in the arse than going to a chain. I stick with convenience, and 98% of the time the local guy sucks.
Unless he's a franchise he does not have the buying power of the Home Depot or Lowes. I had forgotten that Arthur Blank owns the Home Depot, as such, because I hate the Falcons so much, I will no longer shop there so as to hurt Blank and possibly the Falcons.
You have to have standards and believe in something.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 12:31 pm to KiwiHead
Well, locals do do a better job of supporting the community and local charities.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 12:32 pm to airfernando
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why shop local? It's absolutely meaningless. The big box chains all employ local people. The only difference is who gets the net profit. Why should I care if that person is local or not?
Shop local is just a marketing scheme by locals to help themselves. Locals would starve you to death in a heartbeat if it made them rich.
I just can't get behind this mindset.
It's curious to me how most like the idea of limited Big Government interference and influence but have zero issue with Big Corporation dominance over our purchasing ability/price/norms.
Supporting local small business isn't meaningless by any wild stretch of the imagination. Being chewed up and spit out might be the way you think young new business capitalism should go but I don't. That's not my idea of "kick some arse, USA".
Posted on 6/21/18 at 12:36 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
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That's why I give my money to the struggling businessmen like Arthur Blank.
I passed by his house once, in ATL.. He is definitely struggling.. Considering his house is literally a whole block.
Just a FYI, he lives in the same neighborhood as the house they shot some of the movie "Zombieland". The house towards the in, that Bill Murry's character is in.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 12:44 pm to prplhze2000
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Well, locals do do a better job of supporting the community and local charities.
Yes they do. As a society though, we now prize convenience and to a lesser extent selection above anything else. The big box is open when you need them to be open because overall, Lowe's and HD don't give a rat's arse about family time, etc. or Sundays...I'm a big believer in Sundays being the Sabbath or even if you are not religious, a secular Sabbath.
The one thing the local guy has over the big box and this is major, is that they tend to know what they are talking about when it comes to the job you are tying to do, as a rule.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 12:47 pm to LSUFanHouston
We have a local hardware store that closes at 4, frickin 4pm. It’s not open on weekends either. Amazes me that place stays open.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 12:48 pm to LSUFanHouston
Dunno
quote:They told me there'd be no Math.
They are open 730 am - 500 pm. Meanwhile, Sherwin Williams is open 7 am - 7 pm, and for comparison, Home Depot is open 6 am to 10 pm.
This post was edited on 6/21/18 at 12:49 pm
Posted on 6/21/18 at 12:53 pm to KiwiHead
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The one thing the local guy has over the big box and this is major, is that they tend to know what they are talking about when it comes to the job you are tying to do, as a rule.
This is one of the many value propositions a locally owned business brings to the table. My families business competes against Home Depot and lowe’s, and people keep coming back because we can provide solutions that the staff at the big boxes do not have the expertise to provide
Posted on 6/21/18 at 1:02 pm to Sao
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Big Corporation dominance over our purchasing ability/price/norms.
This arguement works when you suspend the reality of mom and pop being more expensive than corporations
Bonus: I can easily obtain ownership and reap the rewards of large corporations
Posted on 6/21/18 at 1:19 pm to LSUFanHouston
If everything is even, I try to shop local.
If it’s a huge price difference or extremely inconvenient in any way, I never shop local.
If it’s a huge price difference or extremely inconvenient in any way, I never shop local.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 1:28 pm to prplhze2000
Why pay 10% or more for the local guy. Sounds pretty stupid. Take the money you save by shopping at the chain and invest it for your future and the future of your family. Why give it to the local guy who will invest it for his family and his family’s future. When it all boils down to it he doesn’t give two shits about you.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 1:29 pm to 777Tiger
That's moronic.
Posted on 6/21/18 at 1:29 pm to LSUFanHouston
I own two local businesses and we are open when the customers need us. Sometimes we work until 9 at night
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