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Originally Posted by ApK
There is no difference.
I can choose to not buy because I have in mind to buy elsewhere, I can not buy because the price is too high, I can not buy because the store is too far from my home, I can shop there and not buy for any reason I choose.
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You are simply wrong in your understanding of the retail business, ethics, and society.
One reason Best Buy isn't doing so well is that their people seem to have the attitude that you do: That the public is there to do them a favor. It's your attitude that is partly responsible for overblown sense of entitlement that some people have, resulting in poor service driving people to shop online.
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There is indeed a difference between comparison shopping at a store and browsing at a store to see an item hands-on with no intention of buying there. To insist otherwise and use that to claim I'm the one with an "entitlement" attitude is ridiculous.
Ethical or not, you are free to buy wherever you choose, nobody has claimed otherwise. Just don't whine when stores like Target stop carrying the products you like to browse. It costs money to display something and carry it in inventory. That's the point some of us are trying to get accross.