I will buy from any stores, big or small, as long as they have good deals.
I can understand that way of looking at it. Huge variety, convenience of spending time in one building to find & purchase things that you need.
The other side of it is that big-box stores are always competing with one another within a given geography, and competing with online outlets like Amazon. So around where I live, the box stores have wound up cutting staff as much as they possibly can, in order to trim their costs. So there's less personnel on the floor
... most staff are behind tills, with a few in the office, and some janitorial staff, etc.
Check-out staff tend to have next to
zero knowledge about where things are located. They're often clueless about a product's quality or uses,
so research is totally up to you.
What have the boxes destroyed? Businesses that are locally owned, where proprietors and sometimes employees
do know where things are shelved, and know something about quality and usefulness. I value personalized service. E.g., we have a great family-run hardware store in my community
... proprietors & employees there can advise about plumbing, carpentry, electrical, kitchen supplies, garden equipment and much more... they can advise from
experience.
Well, fuzzybuddy, you did ask what we think.
