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My wife asked me to buy some things, and after getting frustrated by Amz doing this I just bought from Walmart online. I wonder how many others did something s

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• fmajid 5y ago
  Also many people just default to looking on Amazon because of Prime and force of (conditioned) habit. In fact, that searches start on Amazon (despite its deliberately crippled search functionality) rather than Google is probably the single biggest heartache for Google as they lose that sweet, sweet time-of-purchase-intent opportunity to influence the purchase decision for advertisers. If you break that conditioning and shoppers realize prices are actually cheaper on Target, Wal-mart or whatever, they will start routinely looking elsewhere. Now the outage didn’t last long enough to impact a huge proportion of their user base, but if it had it could durably drag on their growth.
  • axaxs 5y ago
    I do this now. Mainly because Google shopping results ALWAYS have scam sites in them. My workflow was Google search, click shopping, see one store you've never heard of coming in $50 cheaper...Google store to see no real helpful info, or if you're lucky, one or two links to someone asking if it's legit and being told no. I wish they had better vetting.