Walmart learned that if people (in general) had a choice between cheap and good they would pick cheap. It made them billions. Amazon is just following that pla

Walmart learned that if people (in general) had a choice between cheap and good they would pick cheap. It made them billions. Amazon is just following that playbook, but it is even worse. At Walmart manufacturers at least had to vie for physical shelf space in Walmart so there was a floor on how bad things could get. If the product caused damage you could go after Walmart or an actual manufacturer. Amazon has completely turned that system on its head. You can hardly contact anyone for issues (although Amazon does now have a $1000 damage claim guarantee and an okay return policy for many items) and the manufacturers are just fronts. I still shop at Amazon for certain small items or very niche items, but for big ticket items I usually just go to a physical store. Best Buy has been rather good these last few years with price matching, store pickup (in-car or in-store), and fast shipping.