{"id":284,"date":"2014-12-12T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-12-12T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:56:30","slug":"new-study-shows-that-independent-stores-have-better-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"New Study shows that independent stores have better prices."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, you’ll get a better diamond price at the local independent (“mom and pop”) store than at the big box and chain stores. From what I’ve seen, I suspect that is true of colored gems as well:<\/p>\n

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Yup, you’ll get a better diamond price at the local independent (“mom and pop”) store than at the big box and chain stores. From what I’ve seen, I suspect that is true of colored gems as well: http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blogs\/cutting-remarks\/2014\/12\/11\/independent-jewelers-have-better-diamond-prices-than-chains-according-to-um-blue-nile?utm_source=JCK+eNewsletters&utm_campaign=746d96d8ba-2014_12_11_Your_Store_Thursday&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_56301e74d4-746d96d8ba-333931477<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenburchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}