What B&M store would you really miss if it disappeared?

[local]

Home Depot, sometimes I just have an idea for a project but no clue how I want to do it so I just meander around the store getting bits and pieces to make something. Can't do that online.

 

[Ajay]

Local supermarket and hardware stores.

 

[Rifter]

A local Indian restaurant

 

[JeepinEd]

Fry's Electronics. It's about 70 miles away, but I always stop to buy electronic parts when I'm near by. I miss Radio Shack. Now, if I need a capacitor, thermal switch, etc. I have to either drive to Fry's or order it on line and wait.

 

[Muadib]

Best Buy for me. They are the only game in town now for top of the line electronics.

 

[Midwayman]

Best Buy for me. They are the only game in town now for top of the line electronics.

Top of the line? I feel like I'm lucky if they have mid-range stuff in stock. Better than the electronics dept at Walmart or something I guess.


For me it'd really just be the grocery store. Home depot would be tough, but mostly due to shipping being insane when I need 3 nuts or something.

 

[Muadib]

Top of the line? I feel like I'm lucky if they have mid-range stuff in stock. Better than the electronics dept at Walmart or something I guess.


For me it'd really just be the grocery store. Home depot would be tough, but mostly due to shipping being insane when I need 3 nuts or something.

You must not have a Magnolia in your BB. I got my Samsung 4K tv from them last year. They had B&W 800 speakers along with Martin Logan. My sales lady said she just sold the ML monolith to some guy. They go for 80k a pair.


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[Fritzo]

Just 2 off the top of my head:
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The Berkeley Bowl (My local supermarket/produce indy store)

Costco
Been in there a few times, don't remember buying anything.

I should check them out more often. I think you can get good open box deals there, but don't remember doing it. I did check out a printer there and then bought online.

Sometimes they have great TV deals, you can pick up 64GB flash drives for under $10, they'll have SSD drives for under $30, and if you have one with a Magnolia center they can have get INSANE prices on high-end audio gear. I helped my boss set up his in-home audio system last year and scored him 4 Bowers & Wilkins in-wall speakers for 50% off open box. Someone opened one of them, decided it was too much work, and returned them all.

 

[DietDrThunder]

Atwoods, They have just about EVERYTHING I need except groceries, and they have VERY reasonable prices. There is a B&M store about 5 miles away from my home. Free bag of hot popcorn when you enter the store, and always something on sale for a great price.

 

[Fritzo]

Top of the line? I feel like I'm lucky if they have mid-range stuff in stock. Better than the electronics dept at Walmart or something I guess.


For me it'd really just be the grocery store. Home depot would be tough, but mostly due to shipping being insane when I need 3 nuts or something.

It depends on the store. Some of the smaller ones don't carry much, but as I mentioned the ones with the Magnolia centers in them have all the really cool stuff. The one near me has a $14000 8K 85" Samsung TV on display with theater seating set up in front of it. They show National Geographic clips on it and it's surreal how realistic it looks.

 

[Banana]

I'd miss the Dollar store. I buy crap that I don't even need, e.g. an L-square the other day. Metal square for a buck - How can I lose?

Yes, I would certainly miss the Ace that's like 10 blocks from my house. I'm in there all the time.

Ace can't compete with Lowes and Home Depot in my neighborhood. Couple of Aces opened and closed within a couple of years. I'm curious if there are Lowes/HD near your Ace?

 

[dasherHampton]

Couple of Aces opened and closed within a couple of years. I'm curious if there are Lowes/HD near your Ace?

The bigger stores have way more selection but they're much farther away. The local Ace is right down the street, and I know exactly where everything is. I'm home by the time I would have arrived at Home Depot, Menards, or Lowes.

Count me among those who don't want to see Best Buy disappear. I just checked, and they actually have some 2080's in stock.

Off topic - would I see a worthwhile increase switching from a 1070 to a 2080 at 5700x1080?

 

[brianmanahan]

Unpopular- but Best Buy. It's the only major electronics store left. There's something about being able to actually see new products that's appealing. Sometimes they have great deals too.

i still make it a point to buy from best buy if their prices are comparable to online, because i like going to try the stuff and want to be able to keep doing that

bought a TV, sound bar and a few other things from them in the past year

 

[Fritzo]

The bigger stores have way more selection but they're much farther away. The local Ace is right down the street, and I know exactly where everything is. I'm home by the time I would have arrived at Home Depot, Menards, or Lowes.

Count me among those who don't want to see Best Buy disappear. I just checked, and they actually have some 2080's in stock.

Off topic - would I see a worthwhile increase switching from a 1070 to a 2080 at 5700x1080?

I'm running a 1070ti with 5700x1080 on a Devil's Lake i5 and have yet to find a game that causes it to choke. Average around 50fps on FarCry 5

 

[ultimatebob]

I miss Fry's... there is nothing like it in Connecticut. And, no... Best Buy definitely does not count.

 

[AdamK47]

Micro Center

 

[Muse]

I'd miss the Dollar store. I buy crap that I don't even need, e.g. an L-square the other day. Metal square for a buck - How can I lose?


Ace can't compete with Lowes and Home Depot in my neighborhood. Couple of Aces opened and closed within a couple of years. I'm curious if there are Lowes/HD near your Ace?

Best deal I've ever gotten in a dollar or $0.99 store is scientific calculators for a buck! I have bought around 1/2 dozen, and IIRC only one has failed. Use 'em all the time, have stashed here and there.

Yeah, Home Depot would be missed. I also have an Ace [Edit: Actually, closest Ace to me is ~1.2 miles and I'd barely miss them. The place I'm thinking of is a True Value, much better prices, less the corporately organized, but I'm no shtickler] close by, the closest HW store by far. Their prices are actually pretty excellent, is my experience, often the best around including Home Depot! It's a small joint, run by older Asian guys, probably Chinese. I'm sure they don't talk to each other in English, but they understand you fine and have been doing it a long time, so know the ropes. I dig that store, hit it 1/2 dozen times a year. Won't take credit cards for less than $5, but I'm cool with that.

Yes, I would certainly miss the Ace that's like 10 blocks from my house. I'm in there all the time.

Ace's prices are meh. I have a True Value 6 blocks away, ~4 minute bike ride. And across the street from my favorite food market. That would be missed even more. Such a cool place. Their prices aren't always competitive, but for produce, they pretty much rock and have a huge variety. Costco beats them for some stuff pricewise, but Costco has very limited variety in produce.

 

[Muse]

Wegmans for groceries/food.
The thrift shop for the other stuff :^D

I'm drawing a blank on new item stores that I couldn't live without. Maybe the Stihl dealer since they don't sell online, but I'm pretty good on saws for... ever maybe.

I made my own saw tooth set. Used it on my own crosscut saw. I was kinda bored, I guess. I priced it at local HW store and being dirt poor at the time, I just went "hell, I can make that myself if I use my ingenuity and imagination!" Made it from stuff I had lying around. Still have it, very impressive tool! I rarely use a crosscut saw anymore. Sometimes. I have a lot of tools.

 

[Muse]

Supermarket.
How else do I get to eat grapes for free.

I very seldom graze, I'd have to be very hungry. Or legitimately curious, but that doesn't often happen with produce, etc.

 

[Muse]

Local supermarket and hardware stores.

When I was a kid, my idea of paradise was a toy store. When I was grown, a sporting goods store. Now, it's a hardware store. I could wander in a hardware store for hours and not feel like I was wasting my time, as long as I didn't have anything else I needed to do.

 

[snoopy7548]

I forgot about Home Depot - that would be a big one for me. I prefer it over Lowe's.

 

[Muse]

Fry's Electronics. It's about 70 miles away, but I always stop to buy electronic parts when I'm near by. I miss Radio Shack. Now, if I need a capacitor, thermal switch, etc. I have to either drive to Fry's or order it on line and wait.

There's an independent electronics parts store about a mile from me that's been there for multiple decades. Some of their stuff is packaged, but they have a lot of stuff in little drawers only accessible to staff, and there's usually two people staffing. You can buy 1, 2, 5, 10 any amount of the unpacked stuff. You just ask them how much apiece. $5 minimum CC charge. I'm going to hit it Friday when I do my bi-weekly Costco run and pick up some antenna cable connectors. I get a lot of stuff online, but they are sometimes the place to go. Been in there probably 40 times, guessing. Their pricing is just OK, not the cheapest if you consider online, but the convenience factor is tops and with electronics parts sometimes you want it now. Plus you get to see what you're getting.

 

[Muse]

i still make it a point to buy from best buy if their prices are comparable to online, because i like going to try the stuff and want to be able to keep doing that

bought a TV, sound bar and a few other things from them in the past year

I think if the prices are competitive, there's a reason to buy from them (Costco). You can return in person or exchange. Some items are a bitch when shipped, was burned a few times buying TVs this year (from Newegg and Walmart). Better to pick up. Can inspect the box before accepting it, don't have to worry about delivery people being cavalier in their handling of the box.

 

[pete6032]

Funny enough my favorite grocery store just closed its doors this week.

 

[Muse]

Funny enough my favorite grocery store just closed its doors this week.