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no more brick and mortar stores left, now is the time to kill all internet sales of ammo.
it's coming. |
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Any time there is competition for purchasers, the consumers win. Whether it is internet sales, or local sales competing for our gun dollars, that competition helps keep prices down. Many gun shops get plenty of business from people who either don't want to shop on line, Don't know how to shop on line, don't care about how much a product costs, want to see the product first, or simply don't cost compare.
Just as smugglers kept illegal liquor sales going after prohibition, and illegal drug users keep drug smugglers in business, wherever there is a market to sell/buy, someone somewhere, somehow will figure out how to deliver product for sale to those with the money to buy. If one business (brick and mortar gun stores) dies, another type will take it's place as long as there are buyers out there. It has always been that way. |
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I get what your saying OP. We say millennials, but that's too broad of a category.
It's those little 14,15,16 year old bastards that will really put a hurting to brick and mortar / old ways. The ones who never stop posting selfies and do everything on their phones. Whatever we can embrace it if we want. I choose not to and i'm only 29. Hell the other day i went to the small tool rental hardware store just outside of town and hung out for about an hour shooting the breeze. They're a tad more expensive than the big box store but the owner has become a personal friend who takes care of me/my business's needs. Give it 10 more years and then come back to this thread |
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they wont die completely.
i own a brick and mortar store. business is booming. places who sell anything that can be shipped cheap, will fall. |
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Beer, Guns, Car meets etc.
I certainly don't go to the store for anything even remotely social lol. I want in and out with little to no interaction unless I require assistance lol. |
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I rarely shop brick and mortar anymore - around here most the shopping areas are subsidized by "special taxing districts" and "Tx incremtnal funding (TIF)" funds which are essentially corporate welfare... screw paying 10%+ tax on something locally when I can have it dropped at my door in a couple days and not pay pumped up taxes to support the Lowes/Target/Bestbuy stip-mall that's on every corner
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Like it says in the bible...
“kill em’ all let God sort it out" |
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True, but I have heard millenials aren't going to a lot of places. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. View Quote Bowling is still a pretty good time though People are shitposting online because a month of Internet and Netflix is literally 10x cheaper than a couple of social outings. This is purely a economical problem, and we have the Internet available as the only cheap source of entertainment. |
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Millenials aren't going to those places because they're fucking expensive. I can't leave a movie theater for less than $80-100 for two, considering tickets are cresting $25/ea, then concessions (if so desired). Restaurants, same way. I tried to get into golfing but at nearly $100 a game to get onto the green with cart rental, that was too expensive too. Hunting? Very difficult barrier to entry unless you have family that actively does it, and you have your gear, which is surprise -- super fucking expensive. Fishing is pretty popular among my counterparts, but that's still gear, time, and travel. Bowling is still a pretty good time though People are shitposting online because a month of Internet and Netflix is literally 10x cheaper than a couple of social outings. This is purely a economical problem, and we have the Internet available as the only cheap source of entertainment. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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True, but I have heard millenials aren't going to a lot of places. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. Bowling is still a pretty good time though People are shitposting online because a month of Internet and Netflix is literally 10x cheaper than a couple of social outings. This is purely a economical problem, and we have the Internet available as the only cheap source of entertainment. |
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Walmart ain't going anywhere. You can hangout and bullshit with people there.
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VR / AR will let us interact socially in rich and robust ways with ANYONE IN THE WORLD.
I go to brick and mortar stores for stuff. |
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For social interaction? I remember as a kid going shopping at SEARS or ACE with my dad for hardware and tools. Going to Dillards with my mom for clothes. Heading to the grocery store or out to eat. Going to Toys R US for fun. Going to the mall and the movies to hang out. Now with Amazon, Uber eats, and Netflix will the next generations just sit in their basements on social media ordering takeout and jerking it to porn? Is this how society ends? View Quote |
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Meet at the range. View Quote I get all the training I need from watching the pros do it. Like, um, what's-his-name? Cory ... can't remember his last name, but he has a girlfriend names Erika I think. Or maybe it was this guy with really long videos who does reviews and gear checks? |
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For social interaction? I remember as a kid going shopping at SEARS or ACE with my dad for hardware and tools. Going to Dillards with my mom for clothes. Heading to the grocery store or out to eat. Going to Toys R US for fun. Going to the mall and the movies to hang out. Now with Amazon, Uber eats, and Netflix will the next generations just sit in their basements on social media ordering takeout and jerking it to porn? Is this how society ends? View Quote Stuff circles back around. Although the local malls are dying here, retail stores still exist. Here, there are a number of retail stores, that would usually be in a mall, are in a strip mall and are doing pretty well. Old strip malls are getting razed and news ones are being put up but in a different part of town. Location is everything. |
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ITT, old people reminisce about having to waste their afternoon wandering from one drug store to another to find the right batteries for their hearing aid.
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ITT, old people reminisce about having to waste their afternoon wandering from one drug store to another to find the right batteries for their hearing aid. View Quote I told him - look, Dad, you're sitting in the passenger seat while I'm driving; you have an iphone 6 ... just call the places you want to waste the time of (and our time getting to and at), and ask them what you want to ask them. He had NO plans on renting any property right now, and no OK from his wife on placing a deposit to hold a place for next year, so visiting each and every real estate agent until he found one that both had/did month-long rentals, AND had the time to waste on a guy not buying, was going to take a good while. This went on for nearly everything. |
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For social interaction? I remember as a kid going shopping at SEARS or ACE with my dad for hardware and tools. Going to Dillards with my mom for clothes. Heading to the grocery store or out to eat. Going to Toys R US for fun. Going to the mall and the movies to hang out. Now with Amazon, Uber eats, and Netflix will the next generations just sit in their basements on social media ordering takeout and jerking it to porn? Is this how society ends? View Quote |
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True, but I have heard millenials aren't going to a lot of places. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. View Quote as a younger millennial, let me say that most people I know do all or some of these, except for golfing, because that's for old people ETA not nice restaurants, that's a waste of money |
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True, but I have heard millenials aren't going to a lot of places. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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If the only way you every interact with other humans is by shopping then you got bigger issues than what happens if the brick and mortar stores die. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. As a millennial I too mourn the lost social aspects of my childhood and I'm truly concerned for my children. |
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Quoted: I'm a millennial and did all the things posted in the OP as a kid. My parents and grandparents were never into hunting and fishing, but I want that to be something I do with my boys so I took the hunter safety course last weekend. Both boys have lifetime hunting and fishing licenses. They are ages 2 and 1; that's why I don't ever go out right now. Not because I don't want to, they're just too young to take to the movies, restaurants, etc. As a millennial I too mourn the lost social aspects of my childhood and I'm truly concerned for my children. View Quote No cell phones until 18! Or work your balls off and pay for it yourself! Give them bikes not game consoles. Give them Tonka trucks. Legit Tonka trucks! I fucked the streets bully up trying to steal my Tonka dump truck. Hooked that fat fuck in the side of his face. Cab corner on the dump truck damn near ripped his left eye out. I showed him. never tried to steal my shit ever again. Let them climb trees and build forts. Do cool shit. Give them BB guns and eye protection. Go upside their head when they shoot the neighbors cat or dog or shoot a window out. Give them bows and arrows and a few bails of hay. Give them quads and dirtbikes and snomobiles. Christ does everyone these days dope their kid up with Ritalin and Adderall because of Muh ADD/ADHD and shove a video game and cell phone in their hand? I wont. |
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True, but I have heard millenials aren't going to a lot of places. Movies Restaurants Golfing Hunting Fishing Bowling It seems that a lot of activities that require social interaction are becoming passe in favor of shitposting on the net while watching vines and jerking it to pornhub. View Quote |
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Lots of youth today don't even know how to react with an incoming phone call. That's why they never answer and let the voicemail to to full (some fill it up themselves). Then promptly return your call with a text. WTF.
Maybe nobody like me |
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For social interaction? I remember as a kid going shopping at SEARS or ACE with my dad for hardware and tools. Going to Dillards with my mom for clothes. Heading to the grocery store or out to eat. Going to Toys R US for fun. Going to the mall and the movies to hang out. Now with Amazon, Uber eats, and Netflix will the next generations just sit in their basements on social media ordering takeout and jerking it to porn? Is this how society ends? View Quote * The theory becomes unlikely starting here because it requires not-idiots in government. |
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