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When all the stores price match I have no reason to shop online unless I can’t find it in store. Amazon app is used almost exclusively to price match on my phon

When all the stores price match I have no reason to shop online unless I can’t find it in store. Amazon app is used almost exclusively to price match on my phone. Saved $1000’s

dpark 9y ago
I’ll pay more to not drive to a brick and mortar at this point. I don’t want to get in my car and go to Best Buy or Target or whatever and hope they’re stocking what I want, when I know I can get it in two days from Amazon or another online retailer. I’ve been bitten by that too many times. I sometimes miss browsing in person, but I don’t miss wasting my time.
- megaman22 9y ago
  My favorite thing lately is how Lowes and Home Depot will let you look up items on their website, see how many are in stock, and, most importantly, what aisle and bay that item is in. It's usually correct, too. I'm not going to buy those kinds of items sight unseen (go check out lumber at these places... I've gone through half a lift of pine boards to get a half dozen that are straight enough to use... And even more regular hardware, I want to put my tape on it first). But it's a struggle to find just where slightly oddball stuff might be located, if you don't know, and chances are you won't encounter somebody on staff that knows whst you're asking for and where it is in these gargantuan places.
  - dpark 9y ago
    I have taken advantage of the aisle/bay info with Home Depot. It is quite nice for things I couldn’t otherwise find. It’s not always correct but it’s helpful. Home centers actually stock things that are hard to buy online efficiently, too. e.g. You cannot buy a large metal rolling tool chest on Amazon at a reasonable price. Husky wins that battle definitively.
- new_acct_ 9y ago
  Is this submarine advertising? Every major retailer has a listing of in stock items, per store, and will do same day pickup.
  - dpark 9y ago
    So I should do my shopping online and then drive to Best Buy instead of just clicking “place order” and getting the same item at the same price in a day or two? For something I need desperately right now, okay, but for everything else my time saved is worth more than the slightly more instant gratification.
    - solarkraft 9y ago
      in-person assessment. and yes, quick availability.
    - samfisher83 9y ago
      You could place the order and pick up in store. You would get the order a couple days faster, and don't have to go find the item in the aisle.
      - dpark 9y ago
        But I’d spend nearly an hour round tripping to Best Buy including commute and checkout. This is not a win for things I don’t need urgently. I seriously doubt it’s a win for the environment either. It cannot be more efficient for me to drive a vehicle to go pick up a small package than for UPS to put the package on a truck with hundreds of others.
    - Brendinooo 9y ago
      Is "amount of time and dollars spent" the only part of your purchasing decision matrix? Something to be said for supporting jobs in your community, keeping money in your area, bumping into people you might not have seen as much otherwise, etc. Stores can also be great for discovery. It's a lot easier to play with laptops at Best Buy than it is to research how the keyboard might feel online. In another product category, the local video store (we still have one!!) still beats out online in terms of being able to browse selection; I'll see frequent complaints from Netflix users about not being to find what's on.
- esturk 9y ago
  Let's not forget that Amazon Prime has gotten worse with longer delivery periods even when they say it's 2 days. It has been coming later. And this is outside the holidays.
  - nugi 9y ago
    Yup, my 2 dqy shipping is 4 days of handling and 2.5 of shipping. I am lucky if I can order monday and get it by saturday. Its nearly worthless as I tend to order enough for free shipping anyway.
  - SeanBoocock 9y ago
    Really? That's not been my anecdotal experience but would be curious to hear if this is a common experience. I have had trouble with Amazon's own courier, but have largely mitigated that issue by asking Amazon customer service to use other couriers.
    - lostapathy 9y ago
      Its gotten really bad for me and a lot of my friends, lots of prime deliveries on little stuff take 4-5 days, and a lot of items say one day at checkout then a day later when i get the shipping notice, It’s ridiculous. Especially so since i live under 2 miles from an Amazon warehouse.
  - dpark 9y ago
    I get two day deliveries in a single day much more often than in >two days. Late deliveries happen but are very uncommon for me.
  - MattRix 9y ago
    This hasn't been true for me, if anything it seems faster these day. I get most 2-day shipped stuff in less than 24 hours.
    - toomuchtodo 9y ago
      I’m 35 miles from a fulfillment center in a major metro and I couldn’t get a Prime package sooner than 3 days when I was still using Amazon.
pavel_lishin 9y ago
What about amazon's counterfeiting problem?
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  Note that the price stores generally match is the price 'shipped and sold by Amazon'. So stores shouldn't ever be matching counterfeit prices.
  - pavel_lishin 9y ago
    I'm am idiot and misread the comment.
    - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
      Happens to all of us from time to time! :)
  - CamperBob2 9y ago
    "Shipped and sold by Amazon" doesn't mean jack squat. They use their warehouses to commingle inventory from many individual suppliers.
    - somethingwitty1 9y ago
      Amazon does not commingle their inventory. You appear to be confusing 3p sellers and "fulfilled by amazon" with "sold by Amazon".
      - Someone1234 9y ago
        Recently a bunch of people got fake products sold by Amazon.com themselves. Amazon are commingling their own goods, or have some other significant problems in their supply chain. People keep repeating this "not Amazon.com!" response but it hasn't been true for at least a year. Go look on /r/boardgames, /r/pcmasterrace, or that dude with the $5K camera that received a literal brick. These people post their invoices that clearly say sold by Amazon.com and people call them liars.
bobthepanda 9y ago
This is great if you have easy access to a lot of retailers, but this is not always the case. A lot of these stores that price match are in suburbs, whereas I am in the car in the city, and it just doesn't really work for me to try and make the investment to go out there.

When all the stores price match I have no reason to shop online unless I can’t find it in store. Amazon app is used almost exclusively to price match on my phone. Saved $1000’s

dpark 9y ago

I’ll pay more to not drive to a brick and mortar at this point. I don’t want to get in my car and go to Best Buy or Target or whatever and hope they’re stocking what I want, when I know I can get it in two days from Amazon or another online retailer. I’ve been bitten by that too many times. I sometimes miss browsing in person, but I don’t miss wasting my time.

megaman22 9y ago
My favorite thing lately is how Lowes and Home Depot will let you look up items on their website, see how many are in stock, and, most importantly, what aisle and bay that item is in. It's usually correct, too. I'm not going to buy those kinds of items sight unseen (go check out lumber at these places... I've gone through half a lift of pine boards to get a half dozen that are straight enough to use... And even more regular hardware, I want to put my tape on it first). But it's a struggle to find just where slightly oddball stuff might be located, if you don't know, and chances are you won't encounter somebody on staff that knows whst you're asking for and where it is in these gargantuan places.
- dpark 9y ago
  I have taken advantage of the aisle/bay info with Home Depot. It is quite nice for things I couldn’t otherwise find. It’s not always correct but it’s helpful. Home centers actually stock things that are hard to buy online efficiently, too. e.g. You cannot buy a large metal rolling tool chest on Amazon at a reasonable price. Husky wins that battle definitively.
new_acct_ 9y ago
Is this submarine advertising? Every major retailer has a listing of in stock items, per store, and will do same day pickup.
- dpark 9y ago
  So I should do my shopping online and then drive to Best Buy instead of just clicking “place order” and getting the same item at the same price in a day or two? For something I need desperately right now, okay, but for everything else my time saved is worth more than the slightly more instant gratification.
  - solarkraft 9y ago
    in-person assessment. and yes, quick availability.
  - samfisher83 9y ago
    You could place the order and pick up in store. You would get the order a couple days faster, and don't have to go find the item in the aisle.
    - dpark 9y ago
      But I’d spend nearly an hour round tripping to Best Buy including commute and checkout. This is not a win for things I don’t need urgently. I seriously doubt it’s a win for the environment either. It cannot be more efficient for me to drive a vehicle to go pick up a small package than for UPS to put the package on a truck with hundreds of others.
  - Brendinooo 9y ago
    Is "amount of time and dollars spent" the only part of your purchasing decision matrix? Something to be said for supporting jobs in your community, keeping money in your area, bumping into people you might not have seen as much otherwise, etc. Stores can also be great for discovery. It's a lot easier to play with laptops at Best Buy than it is to research how the keyboard might feel online. In another product category, the local video store (we still have one!!) still beats out online in terms of being able to browse selection; I'll see frequent complaints from Netflix users about not being to find what's on.
esturk 9y ago
Let's not forget that Amazon Prime has gotten worse with longer delivery periods even when they say it's 2 days. It has been coming later. And this is outside the holidays.
- nugi 9y ago
  Yup, my 2 dqy shipping is 4 days of handling and 2.5 of shipping. I am lucky if I can order monday and get it by saturday. Its nearly worthless as I tend to order enough for free shipping anyway.
- SeanBoocock 9y ago
  Really? That's not been my anecdotal experience but would be curious to hear if this is a common experience. I have had trouble with Amazon's own courier, but have largely mitigated that issue by asking Amazon customer service to use other couriers.
  - lostapathy 9y ago
    Its gotten really bad for me and a lot of my friends, lots of prime deliveries on little stuff take 4-5 days, and a lot of items say one day at checkout then a day later when i get the shipping notice, It’s ridiculous. Especially so since i live under 2 miles from an Amazon warehouse.
- dpark 9y ago
  I get two day deliveries in a single day much more often than in >two days. Late deliveries happen but are very uncommon for me.
- MattRix 9y ago
  This hasn't been true for me, if anything it seems faster these day. I get most 2-day shipped stuff in less than 24 hours.
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    I’m 35 miles from a fulfillment center in a major metro and I couldn’t get a Prime package sooner than 3 days when I was still using Amazon.

pavel_lishin 9y ago

What about amazon's counterfeiting problem?

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
Note that the price stores generally match is the price 'shipped and sold by Amazon'. So stores shouldn't ever be matching counterfeit prices.
- pavel_lishin 9y ago
  I'm am idiot and misread the comment.
  - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    Happens to all of us from time to time! :)
- CamperBob2 9y ago
  "Shipped and sold by Amazon" doesn't mean jack squat. They use their warehouses to commingle inventory from many individual suppliers.
  - somethingwitty1 9y ago
    Amazon does not commingle their inventory. You appear to be confusing 3p sellers and "fulfilled by amazon" with "sold by Amazon".
    - Someone1234 9y ago
      Recently a bunch of people got fake products sold by Amazon.com themselves. Amazon are commingling their own goods, or have some other significant problems in their supply chain. People keep repeating this "not Amazon.com!" response but it hasn't been true for at least a year. Go look on /r/boardgames, /r/pcmasterrace, or that dude with the $5K camera that received a literal brick. These people post their invoices that clearly say sold by Amazon.com and people call them liars.

bobthepanda 9y ago

This is great if you have easy access to a lot of retailers, but this is not always the case. A lot of these stores that price match are in suburbs, whereas I am in the car in the city, and it just doesn't really work for me to try and make the investment to go out there.