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Nah, we've successfully reduced spending on Amazon by >90% in our household. There are still some obscure items that, due to the sheer spread of Amazon, are in
by bduerst 5y ago
Nah, we've successfully reduced spending on Amazon by >90% in our household.
There are still some obscure items that, due to the sheer spread of Amazon, are incredibly difficult to get anywhere else, online or off - but that was Amazon's original market benefit to begin with. You could always get that weird book on Amazon that you couldn't get in the book store.
- coolso 5y ago@Saddlerustle, that’s a very legit 5-star Amazon review if I’ve ever read one!
- saddlerustle 5y agoGood for you. For me, after the local grocery store went to shit, with Prime Now and Amazon Fresh I've shifted almost all our spending to Amazon.
- bduerst 5y agoYeah, we were lucky in that we had a couple good options locally for produce other than Whole Foods too. The Safeway has gotten really bad, and the mail services I tried were all over the place.
- ineedasername 5y agoYep-- high risk during covid and lack of local delivery capacity, not to mention empty store shelves, meant Amazon Fresh was the alternative. I was fortunate that literally just a few weeks before the shutdown I had been sick and couldn't go foodshopping so I used Fresh for the first time. That made me an existing customer, and when the shutdown hit they weren't taking new ones. Even then, I was up to 1:00am in the morning a lot of times waiting for delivery slots to open. And then Amazon began releasing delivery slots incrementally throughout the day, which probably made it more equitable but also meant I had to constantly refresh the checkout page a dozen times an hour to get one instead of being quick on the draw after midnight.
- WalterBright 5y agoResistance is futile.
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