Originally Posted by
Alupang
Nice post and good thoughts.
I view this as an upside. Whatever I need from any department store I can buy on ebay for a fraction and have it mailed to me. I'd rather support small local businesses than slave labor corps like Walmart--those that allow me to either bring my bike inside or lean it against glass where I can watch it while inside.
It takes too long for milk and corn flakes to arrive from ebay and I get cranky without breakfast!
Seriously, I too order almost EVERYTHING online, even 80-90% of my grocery shopping, and the vast majority of cycling goods too! You can tell because my ebay account is in the first 6 months of the company opening! lol
Unfortunately almost without exception, businesses here in Athens do not allow you to bring the bike in, and since cyclist don't even bother asking about this, when I do, I get very peculiar stares from the employees or management
(and of course a negative answer).