If it costs the shop to provide ther item near you 5$ because they can benefit from mass transit but moving the item to your location costs you 6$ because you can’t. You could be punishing the service of making items available near your location.
Sure. The fact that putting pressure on the other store is an additional benefit beyond your savings doesn’t mean that putting pressure is worth any arbitrary amount. There are certainly scenarios where shopping at the cheaper store that is expensive to reach is a bad idea.
But it’s not bad just because it costs more to reach than you save on price, which is the typical rationalist line about such things.
Sure. The fact that putting pressure on the other store is an additional benefit beyond your savings doesn’t mean that putting pressure is worth any arbitrary amount. There are certainly scenarios where shopping at the cheaper store that is expensive to reach is a bad idea.
But it’s not bad just because it costs more to reach than you save on price, which is the typical rationalist line about such things.