Yes, but I live less than two blocks away from two stores that factor into my lifestyle: ACE Hardware (i own a house and can do a lot of the maintenance on my o

Yes, but I live less than two blocks away from two stores that factor into my lifestyle: ACE Hardware (i own a house and can do a lot of the maintenance on my own), and a local pet supplies store (1 dog, 1 cat). Yes, i definitely pay a premium for purchases I make at each one of these. But it’s not an astronomical amount, and it makes more sense if you think about these kind of stores as local warehouses. Why don’t I just have a 70lb bag of dog food delivered every n days? Idk, I don’t want to have to think about the dog food until I have to think about the dog food. If dog food shows up when I’m out of town, or there’s actually a weeks worth of food left because Externalities, now I have an extra dog food storage problem.