Originally Posted by
himespau
Do that in the bike business and you'll quickly lose your account with your supplier.
Maybe if enough shops lost theoir accounts, the suppliers might start pricing more competitively, and delivering faster...... Thanks to the interweb, retail business models are evolving. Trouble is, they're doing it very slowly. Shops which are still caught-up in the old model are the ones which are doomed/already out of business. If you have a shop and can get stuff cheaper and faster online, than from your supplier, who needs the supplier? (Actually, the supplier that my neighbor deals with is already in financial trouble. Dinosaur business models are going extinct)