I was about to mention that; I’ve bought an upright vacuum cleaner at Target within the past year.
Once in awhile they will have stock on hand but it’s still in the shipping box up in the racks above the aisle/bay location. Always worth asking if you don’t see the item where it’s supposed to be.
Thanks, I was going to say the same.
While I agree overall, in this age of common pop-top cans, this one is verging on passing the ‘non-obsolete’ category. It’s not there -yet-, as I also have plenty of cans that require an opener, but it’s very possibly around the corner.
In a similar vein of “not -quite- obsolete” but hard to find in some brick and mortar stores, it’s sometimes difficult to find writable CDs/DVDs. If only by comparison as when you’d be able to get them in your average major grocery store section. But I think that has more to do with how all (in my area at least) the old big-box computer parts stores died years back (CompUSA and the like). Now if I want to shop in person for power supplies, motherboards, drives, etc, it’s online outside a very limited (and PRICY) selection in places like walmart or target.
One thing which is somewhat more difficult to find is fabrics–a lot fewer people make their own clothes anymore.
I’ve never bought canned spinach, I always get frozen. Is canned better in some way? Other than Popeye use.
Likely still easy to find, and in a good variety, if you go to a dedicated fabric or craft store (JoAnn Fabrics, Michaels, etc.) Decades ago, department stores and dime stores were likely to have fabric/sewing departments, but no longer.
I have to say that the present day situation is a massive improvement. Fry’s was at it’s peak in about 1999-2001, but sometime after that it lost its gloss, because you could both research things like motherboards, PSUs, GPUs, and CPUs and order them online, without having to deal with going to a store, dealing with limited on-hand stock, pain in the butt purchasing procedures, and so forth.
I live about 5 minutes from a Micro Center, and I can’t remember the last time I was in there.
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The number of JoAnn’s is a tiny fraction of what it was and the stores are much smaller and more limited, Most Michaels don’t have fabric stuff at all, and those that do don’t have much, etc.
My wife is big on sewing as a hobby and she’d mightily distressed at how even the specialty stores are mere vestiges of their former selves. And there are just 3 outlets in our greater metro area of 6M+ people.
Fair enough; I’m likely spoiled, being in a big urban market here, and it’s been a few years since my wife and I were actually in one of those stores for that purpose.
I believe that another large crafts chain, which rhymes with Snobby Robby, also has a big fabric selection, but I won’t patronize them, for reasons.
Those bastards do have a fabric section. But again anyone who was a sewer in the 1970s would be appalled at the limited selection of mostly cheap goods there.
I too am in a major metro area. Sewing stuff and fabric is available, barely, if you’re looking only for very basic materials. Not my bag personally, but I do get to absorb griping about it pretty regularly. If the lovely and talented Ms. Kenobi was a sewer you’d be getting it too I expect.
I find it very helpful to be able to pick up stuff immediately without waiting 1-5 days for delivery (NewEgg is often slow). Regardless, the fact still remains that components are increasingly hard to casually purchase via brick & mortar locations.
I don’t like frozen vegetables. It’s either fresh or canned for me.
Huh. We have bags of frozen spinach, peas, corn, Lima beans, etc in the freezer at all times. They’re usually opened. It’s so convenient to grab just a bit of spinach for an omelet.
I have a can of Popeye brand spinach I bought about 15 years ago for display purposes only. You are quite welcome to it.
My sister is old-school, and she was just out a few days ago trying to find some new clothes. She said it was horrible. Crappy looking clothes in a limited number sizes.
Canned spinach is nasty. If I can’t get fresh, frozen is a reasonable subsititute. Canned is not.
I’ve seen them at Costco in Deember. Its for people who are heading south for vaction over Christmas and after the first of the year.
Plain unsweetened canned apples. I used to have an excellent and easy apple cake recipe that required this.
You don’t have any used bookstores? Weird.
Nope. Analog multimeters provide a more “natural” sound profile that’s warmer and more friendly to the ear. And pops, clicks, and tape hiss make it seem more like you’re measuring the resistance as it originally took place.
ETA: /s
Actually, being Costco, it’s probably for the upcoming swimsuit season. I haven’t been to Costco in a few weeks, but when I go next week, I fully expect to find Halloween costumes.