Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
So if you don't want to support the store don't go to the Store. But you're being unreasonable using the store with no intent of buying from them.
What do you do for a living? Whatever it is, I doubt you would care for people using your time, talents, and resources with no intent of compensating you for it.
I think you're using the term LBS way too loosely here. I don't even come close to considering Scheels a LBS. I'm buying my bike from one of two actual LBS. Those two shops actually benefit my community and if they had the shoes I wanted I would happily buy them from one of those places but they don't. I have no hard feelings about screwing over a giant department store that sends their profits elsewhere. I have a long standing relationship with my LBS in a multitude of sports and would never screw them over but I'm not going to settle for what the carry if its not what I want in some cases. Don't be ridiculous.