> Using amazon is not even fair. ...but for most things they are seriously crushing the competitors. Not in my experience. I've seriously dialed back my usage

> Using amazon is not even fair. ...but for most things they are seriously crushing the competitors. Not in my experience. I've seriously dialed back my usage of them, but what started me on that path several years ago was comparison shopping for the first time in a long time, and finding that local stores usually matched and sometimes beat Amazon's prices. Why wait 3+ days for two day shipping when I could literally pick it up now for the same price? Now the main issue I have is all the garbage products with fake reviews.