Support Your Local (18/4)
Last week my friends Dre and Simon at The Sanction announced that they were shutting up shop. Why? Basically because they couldn’t compete with overseas mail order. There’s a little video about it here.
I’m not even going to bother getting preachy about this shit. The people that understand the value of a local BMX shop will shop local. The cats that don’t get it won’t get it because I wrote a bunch of words. It’s a frustrating status quo, I just hope that there are enough of us that know what time it is.
Otherwise we’re heading back to 1999, and that is not a good thing.
Have a good sleep Sangas, can’t wait till you wake up.
2 Responses to “Support Your Local”
April 20th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
overseas mailorder eh?? they had a picture on the news bulletin of strictly bmx haha, thats just down the road, is it not?
April 21st, 2011 at 8:17 am
I saw that too, dunno what was up with it to be honest.
All the talk that I’ve had with Dre and Simon has revolved around O/S exchange rate issues. They haven’t once mentioned Strictly. Several times (previous to this) Dre has said he admires Marc at Strictly, which is not something you often hear from a shop owner.