Keeping it local?

[a1bummer]

I've been seeing more and more ads and commercials about how important "keeping it local" is. I have no problem with that all. I support my local butcher and fruit/vegetable farmers as much as I can. But then there's just about everything else a guy needs. The local grocery and hardware stores have way over inflated prices, and that's only if you happen to be able to find what you need. One of the lacal hardware stores wanted $4.50/ft. for some chain for my snow-blower. I found it in the next town over at a Mennonite owned hardware store for $1.56/ft. So I end up driving 45 minute to Wally World where it's cheaper. But then they still don't carry a good share of the things I'm looking for. And if you ask they usually say it's seasonal or just plain have no idea what I'm asking for. It's gotten hard to find someone who knows what their talking about behind the counter at some the auto parts stores. Menards and Best Buy seldom ever have anything I need. So I end up doing most of my business online.

 

So I have to wonder if the same people who put on those ads saying to "keep it local", ever talk to the "local" businesses about their extremely high prices. I think that if they were asking fair prices, I would have no problem doing more of my business with them.

 

Is it because I'm getting older?

Am I turning into my Dad?!?!

[Cougar]

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[mraf]

When and if the price or time of travel exceeds the price of goods. Then and only then will we all "Keep it Local". You seem normal to me but I'm cheap. If you find a good parts store person you better keep going back there. Their very hard to find. They usually end up opening up their own store then you never see them again. I too shop on-line more and more. What the heck did we do before Google?

[KB2RWW]

keeping it local is OK if the locals would have what i need but thay don't.

Growing up on a farm we almost never went in-to town. if it was broken we fixed it with what we had on hand and if it cant be fixed it then became parts to fix other things.

If we needed a new harvester for the crops the nearest dealer was over 100 mils away and didn't have what we needed so we built it from scratch.

 

if the world lost all thes fancy electronic gadgets most people would not know how to survive. I'm glad I was brought up this way in not relying on other's.

 

only a couple of the business left in town that are still in operation do to there Internet sales. the rest of them moved south wear it's cheaper to operate tan hear in NY,

They just came up with a new tax for beverages such as watter,coffee,soda,tea. it's a money thing i guise?

[mraf]

 

only a couple of the business left in town that are still in operation do to there Internet sales. the rest of them moved south wear it's cheaper to operate tan hear in NY,

They just came up with a new tax for beverages such as watter,coffee,soda,tea. it's a money thing i guise?

Great living in this here EMPIRE tax state.:mo money:Oh yeah it might as well take these too. OK, rant off.

[a1bummer]

YA! All those thoughts are exactly what I've been thinking. Sometimes I don't know what I would do without all my fancy gadgets too. But then, I think I could get used to it in short time. Imagine how much less hectic our live would be without all the cellphones, pagers, laptops, etc.?

 

I think the Amish and Mennonites are onto something.