"dpb" wrote in message
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SteveB wrote:
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I live in a small community where good deals are a way to keep customers.
I go to Discount tires because they have fixed about half a dozen flats
for me, and some small ATV remounts where they wouldn't seal, and they
just wave you off when you go to pay. Of course, I go back when I need
tires, and they have that on record.

I have to go to the big city in the next couple of days, so will take one
and see. But yeah, it'd be nice to just put two new ones on there, but
at the lowest cost. I just use this to haul junk, rocks, limbs, sand,
etc, so it doesn't have to be that great.
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For cheap if go out of town as others said can probably by those
tires/wheels cheap as just the tubes.

OTOH, in small towns there are advantages/reasons to keep the locals in
business--I rarely take that route for only a couple bucks for just that
reason; too many places are already either merely shells of their former
selves or gone. People complain about what they've lost but too many of
those same people didn't do anything to help prevent that...

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Not to hijack the thread but if the local business can't compete you are
only prolonging the agony..Their are plenty of ways for locals to remain
competive , starting a co-op to increase buying power , diversefing products
, providing more advice ,being open on the weekends ect. ,ect...If the local
"just expects " folks to shop there and pay higher prices just to keep him
employed then to bad...I don't have money just to throw away...I suppose we
should be still buying buggy whips to keep buggy whip makers in business???
I doubt locals would pay me more for drywall work just to keep me
employed..They get bids.....And for me to remain competive I have to buy
materials where they are cheaper and are open when I need them...It's called
"capitolism"...Time does not stand still and if they won't change they will
go the way of buggy whip makers and should...Just my 2 cents.....