"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Bought: 6 Mann's Stretch 25+ lures @ $6.48 ea. (They were
$11.95 at the local tackle shop.)

You don't get it.

The $11.95 is a better deal. You not only get a lure, you get to keep a
local
tackle shop. You think the guy who owns the tackle shop will be as
predisposed
to be as helpful and knowledgeable as a local tackle shop guy could be,
once
he's forced out of business by WalMart and its customers and he spends
the last
10 years of his working life at Walmart, greeting his old customers with
a
talking cookie?

My local tackle guy does fine. I don't buy my Mann's lures from him
unless I happen to be there getting something else. But he has top notch
equipment like Accurate, Van Staal, Shimano, Penn, Cape Fear, etc. that
isn't available elsewhere. The local guys need to carve themselves a
niche...and my guy seems to have done that to perfection.


Despite the Walmarts and KMarts there will always be a need and demand for
local bait and tackle shops.

Perhaps Chuck can offer a better example.