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I quite often do drugs, multiple types, though admittedly not cocaine. I've never had the luck of getting this seemingly-common "freebie" everyone mentions
Wow, the username here really checks out, especially with the misspelling.
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I quite often do drugs, multiple types, though admittedly not cocaine. I've never had the luck of getting this seemingly-common "freebie" everyone mentions
Maybe if you lived in poverty in a housing project where many dealers are competing with each other and moving heroin, crack, meth, and fentanyl to desperate people who want to escape.
I did grow up in relative poverty, though not in a housing project. The area I grew up in, at the time, had lots of Crack but no Meth/Heroin etc. Still, never heard of it.
I'm quite sure it's an urban myth :-)
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"First one's on the house," said to me once an Amsterdam back-alley coke dealer.
I quite often do drugs, multiple types, though admittedly not cocaine. I've never had the luck of getting this seemingly-common "freebie" everyone mentions
Instead of an Airbnb-style bartering economy, I'd expect a Netflix for household items would be more feasible. No worries about strangers using and breaking your things, no microtransactions to track. That sounds specially interesting in denser areas. Make it fast and easy for people to request and return stuff, and homes suddenly have a lot of extra space.
I agree with your basic point that commercializing borrowing a tool from a neighbor has been and will continue to be largely a non-starter.
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For me, it's all about convenience. I absolute hate cloth shopping. Now I can order a bunch of stuff, even the same thing in different sizes, try them at home and ship everything I don't want back. And also with electronics, why should I go to the store if I receive the package the next day?
There's another convenience factor here: being in-stock. With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. So you drive there (wasting gas and a lot of time), wander around inside looking for it, only to find it's not even there! Then you have to go drive somewhere else hoping they have it, or get someone there to look it up and see what other…
Many stores, especially the chains, have webpages that tell if an item is available in a store or not.
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There's another convenience factor here: being in-stock. With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. So you drive there (wasting gas and a lot of time), wander around inside looking for it, only to find it's not even there! Then you have to go drive somewhere else hoping they have it, or get someone there to look it up and see what other…
> With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. Many stores, especially the chains, have webpages that tell if an item is available in a store or not.
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There's another convenience factor here: being in-stock. With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. So you drive there (wasting gas and a lot of time), wander around inside looking for it, only to find it's not even there! Then you have to go drive somewhere else hoping they have it, or get someone there to look it up and see what other…
> With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. Many stores, especially the chains, have webpages that tell if an item is available in a store or not.
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Traditional shopping just gives you one tiny rush - when you buy the item. But with online shopping, you get the rush when you buy the item, and when it appears on your doorstep a couple days later!
And F5ing shipment updates. It's like christmas.
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There's another convenience factor here: being in-stock. With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. So you drive there (wasting gas and a lot of time), wander around inside looking for it, only to find it's not even there! Then you have to go drive somewhere else hoping they have it, or get someone there to look it up and see what other…
> With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. Many stores, especially the chains, have webpages that tell if an item is available in a store or not.
And as the other responder said, those inventory counts might not be accurate; if there's only one in stock, and someone just bought it 10 minutes ago, is the webpage really updated that fast?