Originally Posted by
kingston
I don't know what the LBS has to do with it. Rivendell is an online retailer. They may have a physical location, but I'll never go there. I live in Chicago. I respect other people's decision to support whatever businesses they want for whatever reason they want. I normally don't care enough to even give it a second thought. I like Rivendell, so I went to the website and literally couldn't find a single thing I would buy that wasn't sold out.
It doesn't matter if they have a location near you. They very much are an LBS IN Walnut Creek that happens to maintain an online presence. In this day and age almost everyone is an online retailer.