Unless it’s a very, basically, common part don’t even try to buy it from your local hardware store or supplier anymore because they will not have it. There is too much competition from the internet and it just doesn’t pay for stores to keep stock of any part that isn’t the most common.
No I didn’t just find this out, but I did just find out that, recently, it has gotten A LOT worse.

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Unless it’s a very, basically, common part don’t even try to buy it from
your local hardware store or supplier anymore because they will not have it.
There is too much competition from the internet and it just doesn’t pay for
stores to keep stock of any part that isn’t the most common.
No I didn’t just find this out, but I did just find out that, recently, it
has gotten A LOT worse.

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Part of the problem for the local hardware store is the big box stores get a
deal on inventory called 'pay on sale' which means they have NO carry cost
for inventory.

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