Shopping locally can be very limited depending on where you live. My sister-in-law and brother live in Montana. The nearest mall is hours away so she does most of the shopping online. This made finding platform beds for the kids very easy. Actually when it comes to this kind of thing, she finds the selections are better than driving somewhere anyway. So why not do most of the purchasing online. It does not get any easier than that. Sometimes she even gets free delivery, which makes it even better. Living way out in the country gets hard sometimes, but the Internet makes some things much easier.