Yesterday we went to a local retailer to check out appliances. Our plan had been to hit the local guy and then hit one of the big box stores but we never made it to the big box. I’m not sure that we will. It was really great to have someone talk to us about our needs, how we use kitchen appliances and then explain which ones would be fits for us. He even pointed us to a couple of less expensive models explaining that if we don’t need the features then don’t spend the money for them.
He wrote up the order with all the model numbers and their prices and then told us to go home and look them up on the internet or in Consumer Reports and then come back. Wha? Did we just slip into another dimension? We weren’t pushed to buy anything or sign up for store credit. We spent about an hour with the salesman and he let us walk out without closing the deal. Will we go back? I bet for the majority of the pieces we will.