"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
ups.com...
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As their monopoly of the local
markets slowly slips away (welder purchases on Internet, gas supplies
at Home Depot/TSC), you will see the less responsive shops close.

TMT


As they should. I'm sick to death of businesses, any of them, thinking
they have their customers at a disadvantage and refuse to provide what
constitutes good and expedient service and fair value. I've stopped doing
business with several firms of late, due mostly to their indifference to the
treatment customers receive, to say nothing of the lower quality for more
money concept the younger generation seems to find so appealing. The
"bottom line" concept, where they feel they must make a profit at all costs,
including selling used oats for the price on new, fresh ones.

Harold