Main reason I'm carless is because when I moved here last year the new and used market were still insanely overpriced due to the pandemic wrecking the supply chain.

How is it these days? Did it get way better than it was July 2022? Or is it still pretty bad?

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If you haven’t already, check out the Oakland film by Rick Sebak where she and her sisters are in their family store together.

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I think there are more than you think and many in the outlying suburbs where rent may be cheaper than in the city.

Also Covid and Covid restrictions absolutely crushed many small businesses that dealt directly to the public without a strong delivery program in place.

Jungle Jim’s is an amazing store near Cincinnati that I wish I could have closer. Anyone here ever been?

St Michael the archangel. Scott twp

Their title also really does need an Oxford comma or something.

You can walk around the plan to get your steps in once you've finished driving to all your daily needs.

It was a process I used starting before mainstream email adoption. The communication medium is not important, it’s just a means to an end. The value in my comment is that those of us outside of the industry don’t have any insight into the situation at any particular dealer at any given time. Do the deal remotely, get it all in writing and don’t set foot in the dealership until you’re ready to sign the papers.

Damn

i guess the point for me is ruling out events like transformer explosions and it can take a few minutes for pulse point or dlc to publish these things. so if i ask " did any of yinz hear an explosion and blah blah " i'm also wondering if someone drove into a pole or or a if a plane crashed or any number of other crazy ass things happened. i'm not going to necessarily assume it was another transformer going haywire.

Good point. Several people have mentioned this and it would definitely ignite the interest from an owner perspective. It’d be great if PA could move beyond prohibition laws. Grocery business is time consuming no matter how big or small so it’d be great if high margins could support somehow. I think this is what we’ve seen with some of the GetGo Neighborhood markets. Granted I’m assuming if they made enough money for the company, we’d be seeing these everywhere by now

Yea it happens all the fucking time in pittsburgh

Neil doesn't need more than 1 car. He was in Oakland.

Unless things have changed, #1 Cochran prides itself on its lower prices by refusing to haggle. They claim the prices are as low as they can make them and that's something they stand by. So if you go there, yeah, there probably won't be haggling.

Can't speak for anything else though!

> Pennsylvania sales tax is 6% of the purchase price or the current market value of the vehicle (7% for residents of Allegheny County and 8% for City of Philadelphia residents).

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dot.state.pa.us/public/dvspubsforms/bmv/bmv%2520fact%2520sheets/fs-buysell.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiz2ueX9q79AhWYFVkFHbreCFgQFnoECA8QBg&usg=AOvVaw2Oq4BMyaVGbkztZyjfnOuv

The memes are easy to mix up. They're both big and metal.

This is why I used the word "specifically."

Are you seriously asking about a generalized "anti-war movement" that's not about a specific current war?

Um I bought my car at Stuckey last year and I live in Pittsburgh. My sales receipt has the 6% per that area. But ok.

He needs all those busses to fit his giant ego.

Do you write for The Onion? 😀

Bodegas in NY do really well off their grills and deli counter, this is supported by high foot traffic

You pay sales tax according to where you live on vehicles

Part of it is that our corner stores aren't allowed to sell beer, which is how most (legit) bodegas make a *lot* of their money.

That whole “first one here gets it” is an old ploy to create urgency. Not saying it didn’t happen to your friend because yes the supply chain is so jacked up right now, but just putting it out there that that’s an old dealer trick.