Do you buy beer/beverages for your lbs/mechanic/store?
01-20-19, 10:02 PM
#151
Banned.
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 217
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 92 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 12 Times
in
4 Posts
I visited a coffee shop which used to be one of my favorites. A small "local-ish" chain. The employees used to be top notch. The coffee very good. And the theme of the cafe itself: super clean urban warehouse was just too cool for school. That was 3.5 years ago.
I visit again a few months back. Ugh. What happened? The barista's YELL at the patrons at the top of their lungs about the unruly crooked line. Yeah, you need customers to stay in business, stupid. And then the cashier expects a TIP for tapping a button on the iPad. What for?!? Any monkey can tap a button. I didn't tip. She pouts.
Not to mention the clientele has changed. Drastically. And not for the better.
Retail businesses with their expectation of tips are throwing themselves under the bus. But there are also other reasons why customers prefer to shop from home.
I visit again a few months back. Ugh. What happened? The barista's YELL at the patrons at the top of their lungs about the unruly crooked line. Yeah, you need customers to stay in business, stupid. And then the cashier expects a TIP for tapping a button on the iPad. What for?!? Any monkey can tap a button. I didn't tip. She pouts.
Not to mention the clientele has changed. Drastically. And not for the better.
Retail businesses with their expectation of tips are throwing themselves under the bus. But there are also other reasons why customers prefer to shop from home.
01-20-19, 10:07 PM
#152
Senior Member
I'll let the suckers deal with the bike shops. :-)
Enjoy bike shops while you can; they won't be 'round much longer.
01-20-19, 11:34 PM
#154
Senior Member
01-21-19, 10:53 AM
#155
Banned.
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 217
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 92 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 12 Times
in
4 Posts
You will, once all your local merchants are gone.
$80, my ass. They probably quoted you that because of your charming personality. At my shop, the price of a chain ranges from $12 to $48, and installation is five to ten bucks -- free if it's part of a tune-up.
Look, I get it. You don't like to tip people. Everyone's out to rip you off, from the coffee shop to the bike shop. You get to claim a little victory over the system by ordering everything online, and you get a pleasant tingle when UPS pulls up and brings you a present. But when communities lose their independent merchants, they lose their identities. Real people lose their jobs, their investments, and their livelihoods. These are your neighbors. I know that right now nothing's more important to you than saving four dollars, but when your town's commerce is reduced to Home Depot, Wal-Mart, and CVS, you might wish you had supported some of the locals. But then again, you seem like the type who would be blissfully happy in whatever generic suburb gives you easy access to cheap gas and a Cracker Barrel. You've certainly earned it.
See ya.
$80, my ass. They probably quoted you that because of your charming personality. At my shop, the price of a chain ranges from $12 to $48, and installation is five to ten bucks -- free if it's part of a tune-up.
Look, I get it. You don't like to tip people. Everyone's out to rip you off, from the coffee shop to the bike shop. You get to claim a little victory over the system by ordering everything online, and you get a pleasant tingle when UPS pulls up and brings you a present. But when communities lose their independent merchants, they lose their identities. Real people lose their jobs, their investments, and their livelihoods. These are your neighbors. I know that right now nothing's more important to you than saving four dollars, but when your town's commerce is reduced to Home Depot, Wal-Mart, and CVS, you might wish you had supported some of the locals. But then again, you seem like the type who would be blissfully happy in whatever generic suburb gives you easy access to cheap gas and a Cracker Barrel. You've certainly earned it.
See ya.
01-21-19, 04:05 PM
#156
Senior Member
You will, once all your local merchants are gone.
$80, my ass. They probably quoted you that because of your charming personality. At my shop, the price of a chain ranges from $12 to $48, and installation is five to ten bucks -- free if it's part of a tune-up.
Look, I get it. You don't like to tip people. Everyone's out to rip you off, from the coffee shop to the bike shop. You get to claim a little victory over the system by ordering everything online, and you get a pleasant tingle when UPS pulls up and brings you a present. But when communities lose their independent merchants, they lose their identities. Real people lose their jobs, their investments, and their livelihoods. These are your neighbors. I know that right now nothing's more important to you than saving four dollars, but when your town's commerce is reduced to Home Depot, Wal-Mart, and CVS, you might wish you had supported some of the locals. But then again, you seem like the type who would be blissfully happy in whatever generic suburb gives you easy access to cheap gas and a Cracker Barrel. You've certainly earned it.
See ya.
$80, my ass. They probably quoted you that because of your charming personality. At my shop, the price of a chain ranges from $12 to $48, and installation is five to ten bucks -- free if it's part of a tune-up.
Look, I get it. You don't like to tip people. Everyone's out to rip you off, from the coffee shop to the bike shop. You get to claim a little victory over the system by ordering everything online, and you get a pleasant tingle when UPS pulls up and brings you a present. But when communities lose their independent merchants, they lose their identities. Real people lose their jobs, their investments, and their livelihoods. These are your neighbors. I know that right now nothing's more important to you than saving four dollars, but when your town's commerce is reduced to Home Depot, Wal-Mart, and CVS, you might wish you had supported some of the locals. But then again, you seem like the type who would be blissfully happy in whatever generic suburb gives you easy access to cheap gas and a Cracker Barrel. You've certainly earned it.
See ya.
Last edited by radroad; 01-21-19 at 08:41 PM.
