There is really no point in replying to this, because nothing is going to change your views/morals.
Local, privately owned stores do survive off local business. If no one shopped at them, they wouldn't last. Same with big department stores. If no one shopped at them, they wouldn't survive.
Here is what you are doing to them though. Adding traffic through them making them appear busy. Taking sales associates & dressing room time away from actual customers. They have to build more change rooms to handle the demand, and they also have to hire and pay sales associates to handle the demand. All costs money. I'm sure you and everyone like you also puts everything back, exactly how it was so the sales associates don't have to.
Also with your $320 true religion jeans.
[tangent]Do you work for them or something? you seem to bring them up quite a bit in this thread. You're the only person I know who claims to like jeans and still considers them to be quality. [end tangent]
You bought them for $200 with what I'm assuming is a $50 coupon that you receive. Or did you use one of your 30% ones?
So you either actually bought them for $250 or $296...
I agree that the $70 difference is a lot. Still is quite the exaggeration from the $230 you originally stated.
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