Thread: Will COVID-19 change your purchasing decisions?

Originally Posted by sdogg73

Where do you try on your boots and clothes, look through optics, handle equipment? At the manufacturers premises or in NZ? There's 2 issues at work here in what people term as gouging. Manufacturers who want a wholesaler to push their product regionally, but then are unscrupulous and online sell to that region at not much above price to wholesaler. And then wholesalers and retailers that have to stock multiple product lines in varying sizes/configurations with all the associated costs and still make profit. Just for someone to walk in,have the convenience of trying said item and buying off shore.

I come from a time when the local shop had bugger all stock for things a bit out of the ordinary, and it was "ordered in" after the abysmal waiting time for it to be delivered, you were pretty much forced in to buying it even if you didnt like it.
Kinda like buying on line really. Except your drooled over it in a magazine trying to decide if it was what you needed.