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Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon by shmerl on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @01:16PM (#16530718)
It's unethical towards the shop owner. Coming into a store can be viewed as an intent to buy. And if not only you aren't buying, but you are browsing to buy in another store - it makes it worse.

Some stores are made to browse, and it's less of a problem to come in and not buy, but it's still a problem to explicitly come to browse to buy elsewhere.

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Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @02:23PM (#16531263)
> Coming into a store can be viewed as an intent to buy.

I'm very grateful this is not the slightest bit true.

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Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon by shmerl on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:37PM (#16531906)
In some stores - not, but it still can be viewed that way in some situations. And that creates a problem.
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