"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:39:29 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:41:22 -0700, "Cheri" >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Me too. Normal people don't wander around stores looking for things
>> >> that
>> >> a
>> >> lot of stores don't even carry. It makes for crabby people in my
>> >> experience.
>> >
>> > Normal people pick up the phone and ask if they don't know which store
>> > to find it in.
>>
>> Ha! No they don't! You need to get with the times! You'll waste a lot
>> of
>> time if that's actually what you do. And if you do get someone to answer
>> the phone, you'll be lucky if they give you the right answer.
>>
> They not only answer the phone, I get the right answer... probably
> because I don't pick big box stores and know how to ask questions that
> get the right answer.

In some areas, that's all you have. The big box stores. The little places
are closing right and left here. They can't afford to stay in business.