For books, independent Dutch booksellers have a cooperative called Libris which allows buyers to buy any book they can order and have it delivered to your local

For books, independent Dutch booksellers have a cooperative called Libris which allows buyers to buy any book they can order and have it delivered to your local bookshop (no postage to pay) or directly to you, with a part of the profits going to your local bookshop. This is great on the whole, and I use it as a first option for new books (if I don't just buy it in the physical shop itself). But they use some sort of inventory system which hooks into international publishers' stocks, and when you want to order a book from some of those, the system will cheerfully sell it to you, only for the bookshop to contact you a few days later that that book cannot be ordered. I've had a few cases where the only way to get a certain book was through Amazon (e.g., the mass market paperback editions of Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive).