My wife just got new tires.
She asked ME and I told her to go to our local (small town) tire store......a place who juts sells tires.
I suggested them because I have had a really great history with them.
She instead chose Sears...........and Sears wanted too much for cheap tires.
So then, I drove a few blocks to WalMart and let her shop in the mall where Sears was located.
WalMart had a good price, but needed an hour and a half to put TWO tires on the car............even though there was NOBODY else in the garage.
Screw That.
I called Sam's Club from the parking lot.........their tires were reasonable but they required you to buy lifetime balancing/road hazard........which outs them out of the price range we wanted.
We drove to another Walmart.
Tey were also empty but had only three technicians.
One was taking lunch, another was manning the desk, and another was reading a magazine.
They told us it would take two hours since the lone technician could not work alone on a car.......and they would have to wait until the other came back from lunch.
(sigh)
Finally, she agreed to go to a "tire store" and that worked perfectly.