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Every time you...buy the cheapest thing online...you kill an LBS, just remember that.
I really fucking hate this sentiment.
No one should feel like it’s their responsibility to keep another person’s business afloat.
The last lbs I worked at had two owners. One of them was painfully stupid and the other was a racist, sexist, homophobic cunt.
Why should anyone feel like they have a duty to put money in the pockets of people like that?
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Evans was fucked already though? They burnt through millions “competing on the high street” while price matching anybody and anything online - completely unsustainable. It’s sad what it’s become but mikes bikes is the symptom not the cause. The bike trade has been a battleground and a case of survival of the fittest and now that cycle surgery and cycle republic have shut, evans and Halfords on their knees, we just need sigma et al to fuck off and we can get back to a half decent industry.
Every time you (not just you pedalsloth) buy the cheapest thing online (merlin, PX, wiggle, sigma...) you kill an LBS, just remember that.