To all my loyal customers:
I have now become a supplier for all of those stores you come in and whine to me about. I get much more money by selling to the world instead of you. And because I can't charge a membership fee to make up for my cut-rate prices, you will notice a significant lack of stock. Please send all complaints to Edgebee.
Thank you for your past loyalty,
Your friendly hometown shop owner
Back in my day, non-consumable items in RPGs were built to last. I kept using them until I found better ones in dungeons, selling the obsolete ones back to the shop. The non-consumables in this game seem to break every 2-3 days. It's not like I'm trying to run a sweat shop that produces throwaway equipment.