I’ve worked at a couple of Mom & Pop places in the south during my youth, and generally they were terrible with money, racist, and tried avoiding taxes any way they could.
Small sample size with a sprinkle of confirmation bias on my end, but there are usually signs.
Always need help? Discount on cash purchases? Making the customer pay the credit card transaction fee?
There are many others, but those are generally the biggest ones where management is just interested in customer sympathy and the bottom line.
It used to be easy to build a PC that was double the performance of a console for the same price. And it was even easier if you sourced slightly used current hardware. Now you’re lucky to get last gen hardware for a decent price used. The market is garbage.
Back in 2014 you could get brand new motherboards for ~$50, where it’s difficult to find any under $150 that provide decent features. I think the most expensive thing at the time was NAND due to flooded factories but everything else was super cheap.