Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=16640422'>posted</a> on 11/04/2012:

Quote Originally Posted by daneblazer View Post
Brick and Mortar is struggling. Everything is going online. Amazon among others are sucking the life out of small businesses. It takes a large percentage of money out of the local economy and it affects everyone like pool services that don't have online competition.

Can't really blame that on the president. Change of the times. They need to begin charging these online retailers tax though.
its pretty amazing that you can go to a store to pick something out that you want and then find a site that doesnt charge shipping OR sales tax and save a bundle....sometimes from the SAME FUKKIN BUSINESS

i did it with a $2000 refrigerator at best buy....saved myself $100 in sales tax....and the best part was that i still picked it up at the store