> Once they started selling essentially everything at often the lowest prices, I switched to buying from them almost exclusively. I used to do that, but I've s

> Once they started selling essentially everything at often the lowest prices, I switched to buying from them almost exclusively. I used to do that, but I've started comparison shopping at local retail stores more recently. I've found that for many of the items I was buying that are available locally, Amazon was offering the same price or higher, plus a shipping delay (and the non-trivial hassle I have to go through to pick up some packages). Plus, retails stores tend to group similar products together and allow you to get an intuitive sense of a products physical qualities, so I think they often provide a better experience. On Amazon, it can be surprisingly hard to answer the "how big is this, really" question. Now, if I think I can buy an item locally, I try to do that first.