[Porsche-O-Phile]

Shopping sucks. I go online for anything I can. Usually the shipping costs are a lot less than the sales tax (even today). With a brick-and-mortar retailer, you still pay the shipping costs of getting the merchandise delivered to the store, they're just rolled into the price. I also save the time/aggrivation and gas costs of driving to a store. I guess I'm just too much of a "guy" perhaps - I don't get much pleasure out of shopping at all. It's a chore, drudgery and it puts me in contact with the general public. Three things I don't care to do with my time.

I get what you're saying but honestly I don't see what "buying local" for a lot of stuff really buys me. Most stores aren't "local" anymore anyway - most are chains or otherwise HQ-ed out of town/state/country.