>> I wanted a couple of bike inner tubes last week. Amazon was the most expensive,
>> closely followed by ebay.
>> Neither could match the price offered by Halfords (spit) and because I wanted them immediately,
>> had to bite my tongue and go there - first time for twenty years I
>> reckon.
It's a 17 mile round trip for me to Halfords, say £2-3 in fuel, plus probably an hour of my time. Or they will do standard delivery for £3.99.
I just don't go to shops any more, and a lot of people will have acquired that habit over the last 6 months. I'd like to reverse that but it's not going to be easy - I used to accumulate my requirements and make a trip to Milton Keynes every month or so but it's been an unpleasant experience for several years with difficult or expensive parking compared with how it was 20 years ago - shopping has got worse, not better, and at the same time online has got better and I have got better at it. Not to mention the fact that searching physically for things can mean trailing around for hours to find what I want.
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