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USA1,

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If local business can't compete with competitive pricing, I'm not ethically obligated to do business with them as some insist. I don't see them adding to my bank account when funds are low...so I can remain in business.

I've heard more than one small retail owner complain he can't compete with Walmart.

My response: That's the free enterprise system.

Small retail business needs to adapt or perish. Find a niche market or whatever it takes to compete or get out of the business. Business evolution is ongoing and always has been. (Remember the buggy whip, no...?)

Stock holsters at competitive prices and I'll do business with you - Over price them and I'll pass them by...

I called The Arms Room before going there and asked if they had a holster in their inventory for a Ruger SP101.

The very polite response was no - but, they could order one for me.

Hhhhhmmm, "I" can order one for me, saving middleman cost, state tax and a trip to their store.

So why would I have them order one for me?

I'm not knocking them - they were doing the only alternative available to them.

Had they a holster for my pistol, there's a very good chance I'dve bought it from them that day.

Maybe it's just me, but when a store doesn't inventory what I want, O.K., but why on earth would I have them (any them...) order it?

The internet has made doing your own ordering (of almost anything) a cost saving breeze.