Why It’s Not Always Great To Shop Local — MacSources

Shopping local is not all that it’s cracked up to be

Recently I started working on a review of a Synology NAS unit. I needed to pick up some hard drives for this unit to get started as fast as I could. No local stores around me had what I needed in stock but big online retailers like Newegg and Amazon did. I did, however, find a shop recommended by Synology two hours from me that was supposed to carry gear for Synology. I thought if Synology trusted them enough to add them to the list of retailers then why not give them a shot.

As a bonus, I thought, “They are a small business and I would be supporting a business other than a big box store.” I placed a call and spoke with Mitch, one of the employees, who informed me they don’t keep the drives I wanted in stock, but he could overnight them to the store for me since I needed them ASAP and they would cover the cost of the overnight shipping. “WOW!” I thought to myself. “Overnight shipping is more than Newegg and Amazon could do.” The best I got from them would be on Monday. This was a Thursday and I thought I was going to be able to drive up on Saturday to pick them up. That would give me the weekend to work on the setup of the Synology. Perfect.