South of Flagstaff Shopping
South of Flagstaff shopping for even exotic goods has always been quick and convenient... once you arrived in town. In the early days of Flagstaff you made your choice from a merchant's catalog and placed your order. The merchant had the day's orders telegraphed to Chicago. A few days later, your goods arrived on the train. You could make another trip into town, and then haul your goods home. If you lived "close to town" the trip to Flagstaff might take only a few hours... but if you lived around Sedona, the round trip to Flagstaff usually took two days. Today, you order via the internet, and wait for... overnight delivery to your door. Shopping for clothes, shopping for electronics, shopping for tools, shopping for toys, DVDs, music or whatever else you can think of... it's available to you.
As you would expect, residents South of Flagstaff shop for
gifts
and buy for ourselves and our families as often as people in cities. We also have the same
requirements and expectations...
Before internet shopping and quick delivery services were available, our choices were pretty much limited to the Montgomery Ward Catalogue, Sears "Big Book" and competing mail order merchants with their own catalogs.. Today, we can drive into Flagstaff and deal with limited selection, or drive two hours to Phoenix and Scottsdale for a better (but still not complete) selection.
The high cost of gas makes any unnecessary driving less and less attractive. A buying trip to Phoenix and Scottsdale is an especially bad idea right before Christmas, the busiest time of the year.
You can easily find what you want on the internet and get the best prices and choices on flowers, wine, gifts, clothes, educational toys, the newest electronics, and every other conceivable product. Flagstaff
shopping at Amazon, buy.com, Overstock, and other sites is amazing. They
seem to offer everything you can think of.
Low prices offered on the internet usually more than offset shipping charges.
And on-line shopping is
safe. Providing your credit card number and other information to an internet merchant is now probably safer than handing your card to a
store clerk in person.
On-line shopping has to be one of the three best uses for the internet, along with research and education.
South of Flagstaff shopping at the new big box Wal-Mart and expanded Flagstaff
Mall will give us more choices, but the huge selection and low prices
available on the internet means on-line shopping will keep growing.
Electronics, Computers, Digital Cameras, Video Games, and more
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