Shopping Locally

For the past month, our front driver side car tire has been loosing air - since we've had the same tires on the car since we purchased it new two years ago, we decided just to put 4 new tires on the car so it would balance out and everything and we wouldn't have to worry about them.
Since we live in a very small area - we don't have a lot of choices on where to go to get things like this done- however, we have a Walmart and my first instinct was that they would be cheaper than any individual place around here-- BOY WAS I WRONG! Walmart wanted nearly $140 PER tire - we are talking over $500 just for tires for my car - I was like WOW and I remembered my Dad telling me to check with Morgan's which is a little one man owned gas station, small garage and used car dealership all combined- so I called there, and he charged us a total of $326 for the 4 tires, balancing, the $10 fee to get rid of the tires, etc. - he was fast, super nice and way cheaper than Walmart- I saved and I feel good about giving the business to him instead of to the chain store - so, it just goes to show, that sometimes it does pay to go with the smaller people and to take 5 minutes and do some checking around on things before just making a purchase.