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Go local.
Idk what a local store is here. Everything is a chain.
Food? Publix or Winn-Dixie. Thats about it, save for the Asian market on the corner and a once a week farmers market that I never seem to be able to attend.
Meds? CVS or Walgreen's. We have a local pharmacy, insurance doesn't cover them.
Electronics? Best buy. There's no mom and pop computer store
Furniture / clothing / household items? Thrift stores maybe?
Big Box stores didn't just reduce mom and pops in my area, it killed them.
The only non-chain stores are for niche products like a smoke shop, the aforementioned Asian market, restaurants, and entertainment venues.
I know these are american stores because you mentioned cvs, best buy and walgreens but I dont know about those other stores being from america and some people won't be aware that these stores are located in america
Please don't resort to US Defaultism on lemmy
Does it actually matter what the names of the stores are? From context, I know you know they're chain stores, as opposed to "mom and pops" regardless of location, and more or less what they sell.
Do you expect me to know what country you're from and tell you the stores near me are actually the stores near you?
I don't live near a Tesco, or a Tim Horton's, yet if I didn't know what those were and you put them in a post about places you're forced to buy food, as opposed to the small shops you wish you had, I could safely assume they were grocery stores.
Stop making "US Defaultism" an issue where it isn't. It is real, and this isn't it. I am a person describing my experiences and I happen to live in the United States. Why on earth would I write about how inconvenienced I am by a brick-and-mortar chain electronics store in Germany?
For electronics try Swappa or Jawa
Reminder to mention the country they are in
Don't resort to US Defaultism
Thanks I'll check them out!
I need a local searchable storefront
Aren't pretty much all storefronts searchable, or is it a Europe thing?
I shop primarily local and find stores with ddg/Google/Google maps. I live in a country where Amazon doesn't exist, and shipping takes at least 3-7 days, so I've always bought stuff from local stores. Of course not everything is sold in a physical store, for which you'll probably have to use ebay.
For large chain stores that happen to be local, Google is fine. But I can't get an inventory from the local mom&pop grocery. Or even the local game stores that have a website with an inventory, Google doesn't search among them, so I'm stuck going to multiple websites to search by hand.
It's just a pain, and if it's a pain, I'll only do it half as much as I could.