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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/28/22 10:38 AM, Marcus Daniels
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;">Amazon is almost always easier and faster
than a local business that have thin inventory and higher
margins. A local business is a place get COVID. </span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I find I usually order hardware
and equipment online from Home Depot because the store
inventory is kept thin on purpose (like because it is stolen).
This is why Amazon is on top. It is a better way to do
business and they are really good at it. <br>
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I still buy from local businesses as much as I can *so they will be
there when I want/need them*... I also find ordering online and
picking up at my front door exquisitely more convenient "in the
moment", whether it is Amazon or Home Depot or Autozone. But then
there are those times when I don't want to wait a day or three for
the plumbing part that gets my bathroom back to working and it would
really suck if the (Ace) Hardware store run by the local pueblo were
closed (they closed a *lot* during COVID and during the "great
resignation" we are still in). <br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;">Not everyone is a cow. We are selected and
self-selected into organizations were our personalities and
abilities work. Some are farmers, some are cows. When the
cows are left to wander, they get frustrated and call for
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<p>You sound a lot like John Galt!</p>
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<p>And just to double-down on the "aphorisms": "when you own a cow,
the cow owns you". I think it goes for golden geese also. And
I think maybe Mr. Putin is maybe going to get a kick in the teeth
by the golden-goose-cow he has owned now for 30? years... <br>
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