Name another place to but a radio besides amazon
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Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoWhy is everyone so quick to recommend Walmart? Corpo advertising shouldn’t have a place on lemmy , intentional or not
Steve@startrek.website 12 hours ago
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Would’ve looked a lot better if you commented that when I hadn’t already
mika_mika@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As evil as Walmart is it’s undeniable they do have everything you could think of under one roof. The idea isn’t awful if it wasn’t so harmful.
0ops@piefed.zip 21 hours ago
Well, not always. Mine apparently doesn’t have any vanilla extract right now. I can only assume that it’s tariff related
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because they’re fucking everywhere, something like 90% of the US population lives within 10 miles of one.
It’s basically shorthand for “this is a common and readily available thing that you can acquire anywhere in the country for cheap even if megacorps have driven all of the local specialty retailers out of business in your areas”
As opposed to something like a HF ham radio which is a specialty item that no big retailers like walmart, to the best of my knowledge, carry, and so you’re probably not going to be able to find it locally.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I get that it’s short hand for that --but I still don’t think it’s good to push people forward to stores with so many moral and economic issues like walmart as the first suggestion.
Fondots@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
A “truckers” (CB) radio is exactly what I was suggesting FRS radios as an alternative to.
I suggested them because they are much simpler to use. With a mobile base station you need to figure out where to mount it in your car, where to mount an antenna, tune that antenna, how to hard-wire it into your car’s power (or splice an adapter onto it to power it from the cigarette lighter), whereas with a walkie talkie you just need to turn it on, put it on the right channel and push a button.
(Handheld CBs do exist. I’ve very rarely seen them for sale in a brick and mortar store)
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Believe it or not. Shopping at unethical companies is unethical
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
But I can buy that thing on eBay for 3X more plus shipping!