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Support Your Local Skateboard Shop #sylss
Support Your Local Skate Shop #sylss
Porn Star, Sarah Peachez
Support Your Local Skateboard Shop #sylss
Retail and marketing are dirty jobs. The winner seems to be the one who devises the best campaign with the lowest pricing. At first glance that sounds good, but is the consumer ever a winner in this game?
Lower prices always means there's a sacrifice somewhere. A store may compensate for this by raising the price on other goods or by offering lesser quality goods. This is the case with box-stores that sell skateboards and skateboard equipment. Toy stores, dicount stores, mall stores and sporting goods stores all sell skateboards. So does your local independent skate shop. What's the difference? Price and quality.
Independent skateboard shops sell high quality skateboards for which you'll have to pay the going rate. Box-stores, like Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target and others sell cheap inferior skateboards for less money. Unknowledgeable parents will buy their kid a $20 skateboard and think they saved a bundle compared to the local skate shop's price. They'll think otherwise when that box-store skateboard breaks in a few days, sending their kid tot he emergency room - $500 healthcare deductible.
Uninformed skaters/consumers need your help. You can lend a hand and help support local skate shops by downloading these SYLSS "Crappy Skateboard" WARNING LABELS (4-up PDF files) and stick 'em on those crappy products you encounter in the mall, discount stores, toy stores and sporting goods stores.
Only independent skateboard shops sell quality products that won't break or fall apart in the first 10 minutes of use. Boards purchased from crappy department stores and gluttonous box-stores are unsafe and will usually result in unnecessary injuries.
Your local skate shop is the only place that cares about you and ensuring you get high quality equipment. Department stores, toy stores and sporting goods stores only want your money. Independent skate shops want to keep you as a customer by helping you get the best products available.
Check out our Support Your Local Independent Skateboard Shop resource center #sylss.
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