This is always a fun read everytime it comes up. I never vote with my wallet. I let companies vote for my business with their pricing.
I know what I want and I know what I'm buying, I assume that most on this list do as well, I don't need to be sold anything. If I head to a store (of any type) and they have something I want cheap, I'll buy it. Otherwise, why spend more? I have worked on and off in bike shops for 25 years. Here is a secret, most shops don't like ordering things for customers. It's out of their routine, it's not what they already paid for to stock and it's an extra thing to do. Most shops place an order weekly, a few will order twice weekly. But its still a pain to do the extra steps for a one-off. Plus, I can order damn near anything right off of my phone and have it within 2-3 days. That's pretty darn convenient, and I am a man of convenience. I was killing some time waiting for a friend last weekend and I pulled into a Field and Stream store. They had a rather nice carry pistol, a Ruger LCP 2, for $350. A few second on my phone and it turns out Cabela's which is a few miles away has it for $300. Where do you think I spent money? Both are my "local" store. Both employ "local" people. One Just does a better job at cost management, inventory control and cost cutting and regulation. The $50 I saved went right into an eBay seller on a pair of Modolo anatomic brake hoods that were probably $8 back in the 80s. All the dollars always get spent. Its just a measure of who gets them. For the record, the 001 pedals are nice but routinely go for right about $45 online. Cheers, Scott On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:15 AM, iamkeith <keithhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joe, i dont mean to answer for grant, and am not at all certain there's > any common thread, but thought this news story from today was interesting - > about warren buffett signaling the "death of retail." Seems that even the > businesses that once killed the other businesses are struggling to stay > alive: > > https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/warren- > buffett-just-dropped-walmart-and-signaled-the-death-of- > retail-as-we-know-it/ar-AAmWKmg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
