Belk's has Frigidaire & Cuisinart as alternatives to Kitchen Aid's. Belk's will ship, info at bottom of page (relatively inexpensive). Here's a link, click on 'coupons' at the top of the page:

https://www.belk.com/home/kitc...isinart%7CFrigidaire

If I have one complaint about KitchenAid, it's the stupid burnished aluminum attachments they include with the mixers. No matter how hard you try, eventually one of them is going to find its way into the dishwasher and it'll be ruined. Save yourself the headache and buy the white (porcelain?) coated ones up front.

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A while back I was looking to get a used Swedish, Ankarsrum.
https://www.ankarsrum.com/us/

Kind of pricey, but I was less than thrilled with recent Kitchenaid quality.

Anyhow, they are nice to peruse.

"Alternative to Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer"

I do use this as an alternative when I don't want to pull out the mixer. If I am making bread, sometimes I'll just do it the old-fashioned way by hand - kneading bread by hand can be therapeutic.

Having run the course on mixers as a bread baking/pizza dough making enthusiast,
Your grandmother's Kitchenaid is nothing at all like today's Kitchenaid. They used to be built by Hobart and now they're Chinese crap, even the expensive models if you want to make dough. The heads will get hot enough so that you can't hold your hand on it and it will work it's ass off trying to knead dough.

They even recommend shutting it off and letting it rest every couple of minutes. Great for cakes, maybe cookies, meringues and light work but not for dough.

I bought my wife a Bosch Universal as she bakes hundreds of pounds of cookies at Christmas time, she loves it. I eventually bought an Ankarsrum for my doughs because I didn't like the kneading of the Bosch and it does well. It does different but it does well. I recently bought the mixer I really wanted, a Famag spiral mixer and it's king. Supposedly it's really only a dough machine but I'm pretty sure it'll see cookie dough this winter and I believe it'll do well at that too.