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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap
So, in a fact that are regular retail stores?
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TO ME, regular is not what they are.
A long, long time ago in the country of America,
people known as businessmen would open a store sometimes called a merchantile or general or hardware store. These stores would have at least one of everything and unless one of your neighbors happened to need the same thing recently you could be fairly assured of it being instock. If he didn't have it you'd have to wait about a month till the next shipment came in.
That is my definition of REGULAR.
Moving forward we now have "Big Box Stores" such as Home Depot and Lowes. They have hundreds of the same item and never run out (unless it is something critical to a time sensitive project I'm working on). They can also through their mass purchasing power sell items a lot cheaper than the regular store.
The regular store now is an extinct thing except in the smallest of communities where the Big Box Store cannot do the volume required to make a profit.
DON'T GET ME WRONG!
I am not crying or protesting the Big Box Stores. They are an evolution of the regular stores and are probably necessary. They certainly get a lot of my money. I average between $300 and $1,000 there every month. They have made the difference in whether I can or cannot afford something. Recent case in point. I bought 3 Windmill palms at Home Depot for $600 total. Three years ago I purchased one windmill palm at a local palm supplier that was half as big and paid $350 for one.
Anyway what we have now is not REGULAR but I suppose it is the
NEW REGULAR!