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Originally Posted by rice cooker
there is absolutely no reason to buy hockey gear at a mom n pops store  |
Yeah there is. Here's one:
Making sure skates and helmets fit and to avoid having myself waste time and effort and take a loss on reselling my bad purchase on craigslist.
I buy online goods (most recently a goalie c/a) as much as the next guy, but saying there's no reason to buy local is silly. Most top end stuff is pretty much the same price (if not more if you factor in shipping, gas, letter service, exchange rate, CC conversion, etc).
Unless you're buying cheap clearance stuff that nobody locally carries, buying local for most things is usually the most worth your time and money.