{"id":716,"date":"2017-01-10T21:38:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2017-01-10T21:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:38:05","slug":"appliance-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/appliance-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Appliance Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_723\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/products\/appliance-stores\/ratings-overview\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-723\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CR-app-stores-210x300.png\" alt=\"Major appliances online\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CR-app-stores-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CR-app-stores-105x150.png 105w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CR-app-stores-768x1095.png 768w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CR-app-stores-718x1024.png 718w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CR-app-stores.png 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major appliances online<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Clients frequently ask which local appliance stores I recommend. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/products\/appliance-stores\/ratings-overview\/\">Consumer Reports<\/a> actually did a study of stores in June 2013, showing how much appliance shopping had moved online, even for large items. Highest rated will ship to the bay area: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abt.com\">ABT Electronics and Appliances<\/a> (score: 93), followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">Amazon<\/a> (90), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfm.com\">Nebraska Furniture Mart<\/a> (90). Best ranked local brick and mortars: Costco (89, though poor selection), Lowes (85), Best Buy (84), and Home Depot (84).<\/p>\n<p>Ratings were based on price, selection, in-store service, checkout ease, website usability, shipping, installation, and haul-away. Rankings had remained quite consistent for the previous half dozen years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clients frequently ask which local appliance stores I recommend. Consumer Reports actually did a study of stores in June 2013, showing how much appliance shopping had moved online, even for large items. Highest rated will ship to the bay area: ABT Electronics and Appliances (score: 93), followed by Amazon (90), and Nebraska Furniture Mart (90). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}