I never understood why it’s looked down upon to purchase goods from online retailers and big department stores, especially if it’s significantly cheaper. Local businesses up charge their goods like crazy to stay afloat, but I’m not a rich man. Why in the world should I pay more from my own pocket to help support your local business?

If you own a bookstore, coffee shop (and sell an $8 cold brew because it’s “organic and home made”), record store, clothing store (selling name brands) and you decide to up charge because you need to stay afloat, I am 100% without shame going to find the best price, and if it’s Amazon, then praise Amazon. Your business can go out of business for all I care. Owning a local business for the sake of having a local business when there are department stores and online retailers selling for nearly half of the price you’re selling, that is an incredibly stupid investment.

Bookstores especially are the absolute worst. I’m not paying 39.99 full cover price of the latest Stephen King book at your local business when Amazon is selling it for 18.99.

    • mommykink@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      “Nooo, I didn’t mean [thing I literally just said] I meant [thing I didn’t say]!!”

      I genuinely don’t understand what you mean.

      Also, I’ve seen almost this exact same post get repeated on this page and others from similarly-aged accounts (yours was created 4 hours ago, as of the time of this comment). If that’s you then dude… move on. You obviously feel very insecure about not being able to shop entirely local and I’m telling you that that’s fine - I do it too - but the argument you keep making about it being stupid is exactly that.