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Originally Posted by 4X4
I don't. What is so hard to understand here? A convenience store has to charge more than a place like Walmart. Walmart makes a few cents on thousands of items per day, while a convenience store makes a few dollars on a few dozen items per day.
If you want to pay low prices, you have to go to the big store and hike around and do the work yourself. If you want convenience, go to the place where someone has already taken all the items and put them in a little store and marked them up - for your convenience.
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If it's a 3.99 item in the grocery store and it's 8.99 for the same damn small tub of Peanut Butter at a mom and pop's local grocery store in a small community, then you bet I'm not going to pay more to support locally.
If it's 0.20 more for the loaf of bread at the mom and pops operation, I'll likely buy it there over going to Superstore.
Christ, I
never once said convenience store. I know and understand the difference. Maybe you meant to quote someone else?
The point I was making was I don't mind paying a little bit more to support local and I almost expect to because they don't have the same purchasing power as a WalMart. However when they try to abuse their clients more then necessary, it really pisses me off that they can't understand they are losing business because it hurts the small community's economy overall.
Case in point is we do our main grocery shopping out of town because the grocers in Hanna are significantly overpriced. We save at least a hundred dollars even in light of the gas and a fast food meal by going to Red Deer for our big shop.