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They had an item you were desperate to have, and they were the only ones in the area who bothered to stock the item. So, you spent a bit more than what you could have bought them for online, and Im sure most folks do buy them online, so the local store would need to charge a bit more to make stocking the item worth it.

They are convenient but their overhead is much more than online retailers.