Comment by JadeNB

1 day ago

This seems to be saying "you shouldn't bother supporting your local businesses because not enough people do it to make it worthwhile." But, if they're what we want, somebody has to be the one to start shifting support back to them.

They're not what I want. They can't possibly maintain a sufficiently-diverse inventory to provide what I want/need when I want/need it.

See also Wal-Mart and the decline of small-town retail. News flash: nobody actually misses them, because they never stocked anything but lowest-common-denominator merchandise.