Department Store Bikes Vs Bike Shop

Top photo in this article i am going to present evidence that the person paying 150 at a department store is going to pay more then 200 to repair the bike over the next 5 years.
Department store bikes vs bike shop. I used to be in your position. Why should i buy a bike at my local bike shop for 350 instead of a bike from a department store like wal mart target or kmart for 150. Buying a new bicycle. What the heck do you get for 1000.
I had a friend who liked to bike and bugged me for years to buy a bike so that we could ride together. He insisted i needed a nice bike which at the time meant over 1000. Why are they priced so low. Walk into kmart or big w or whatever mass department store and navigate all the way to the back of the store to where they hide their small bicycle range.
Start looking through the bikes and wait for a staff member to walk past. Department store bikes are not priced cheaply because it s a bigger store that is selling them. Walking into a department store to buy a bike. Grouptrails host asks a st louis bike shop owner the difference between buying a bicycle from a bike shop versus a department store.