Why people don't shop local
I don't usually read the fashion and style section of any newspaper, let alone the PD, but this caught my eye this morning.
I'd add one more reason: because we've forgotten where to buy certain things. The big box stores have got us all conditioned to think they're our main supplier. I mean, where do you buy sheets and pillows if not at Target or Bed, Bath, and Beyond? Where do you buy curtains and blinds? An air mattress? A lawnmower?
I'd add one more reason: because we've forgotten where to buy certain things. The big box stores have got us all conditioned to think they're our main supplier. I mean, where do you buy sheets and pillows if not at Target or Bed, Bath, and Beyond? Where do you buy curtains and blinds? An air mattress? A lawnmower?
posted by Christine Borne at 8:49 AM
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Well, I dunno, we always got stuff like that at Sears, Wards, or JC Penny (Penney?).
I really love Sutton Industrial Hardware - they always have everything I need, they let you roam the aisles blindly if you so choose, and, though they're in the opposite direction from my house, it takes less time to stop there than to go to the Home Depot on my way home from work. Unfortunately, they close at the same time as I get off work.
I wonder if anyone has considered nighttime pick-up boxes, like they have at the CH-UH library. You call in your order and they charge the books to your card. They give you a one-time code to open one of the boxes. Sounds good in theory, although I've never tried it. I can imagine that with a hardware store that there might be a higher incidence of break-ins into such things.
Seems like local shops carry largely very high end merchandise any more. For example, there used to be a linens shop called Block Brothers in Fairview Park, which as far as I remember sold pretty nice but not particularly expensive towels and sheets. I just did a search for them, and found that they are now exclusively in Pepper Pike, selling high end linens that are not what the vast majority of people are looking for. It's not news that the small shop has trouble competing on commodity items.
Well, I admit, the existence of such a thing as a linens shop, now or within my lifetime, is news to me.
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