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Ok but that doesn't come close to the variety of products you can buy online.
by jstanley 3mo ago
Ok but that doesn't come close to the variety of products you can buy online.
- hx8 3mo agoI think this is the point I was trying to make, but didn't make as clearly as I wanted. Sure I could buy two or three different types of keyboards within walking distance, but none of them used my favorite mechanical switches. I was constantly facing choices where I would either need to travel by vehicle to a speciality store (train, bus or car), or I would order the item in. Judging by the flow of packages into my multi-residential building others were facing the same choice.
- no-name-here 3mo ago> none of them used my favorite mechanical switches One of the major points(/claims?) of the OP article is that fewer choices is better, pointing to how Costco has just 4k SKUs (paragraphs 4, 5, 6, and some within later paragraphs). <shrug>
- danny_codes 3mo agoSure, but 98% of what you buy is is either in the set of SKUs near you or substitutable for them. Near you only applies if you live among actual density of course.
- tstenner 3mo agoIronically I found my current keyboard (a quite nice Cherry) in a store near me. For specialty parts where it doesn't make sense to have to them sitting around in stores everywhere online shopping is still allowed, but I only need to order something every few weeks