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It's odd, but I feel almost exactly the opposite to you and GP - I hate shopping. I hate having to drive through traffic, I hate looking for something for even

It's odd, but I feel almost exactly the opposite to you and GP - I hate shopping. I hate having to drive through traffic, I hate looking for something for even five minutes and not finding it, and I hate dealing with people (well, not all people, and hate may be too strong a word, but it follows the other two). I am hardly ever surprised by what I order online - on the contrary, I know they have it, and I am almost always guaranteed to have good quality. How many brick and mortars have even an agregrate rating of their products listed right next to them? And no brick and mortar can compare with the selection you get online. The tactile and "sense of place" seem very subjective, especially when you consider that 95% of your time with a product will be spent with it away from where you purchased it. I'm all for buying locally to keep taxes going to local funding and employing people in my community, but if I go to a brick and mortar and can't find something once, in 5 minutes, I'll never buy it in a brick and mortar again.

mkr-hn 12y ago
I'm the same way. Money is scarce. I need to know what I buy is going to work for me, and I can't do that with the 1-3 options at the store.
stormbrew 12y ago
When I know exactly what I want I hate shopping, but that's pretty rarely true for certain classes of things. When I buy books, videos, etc. I want to be surprised and be able to learn a bit more about it in place. But there is also the "I have it now" instead of "I have it whenever the delivery man can be assed to find my apartment and actually deliver it to me" factor even when I know what I want, and then it's just stores that make it hard for me to buy something that bother me. > How many brick and mortars have even an agregrate rating of their products listed right next to them? On this specific point, I have a phone. I don't need (or really want) the store to have this, I can have it any time I want to. When I'm surprised by something in a store, unless it's immediately obvious that it's something that I want and it doesn't suck, there's my phone to tell me if it's a sham. That said, I went out of my way to point out that I don't think it's better, just different. So yes, it is subjective.

mkr-hn 12y ago

I'm the same way. Money is scarce. I need to know what I buy is going to work for me, and I can't do that with the 1-3 options at the store.

stormbrew 12y ago

When I know exactly what I want I hate shopping, but that's pretty rarely true for certain classes of things. When I buy books, videos, etc. I want to be surprised and be able to learn a bit more about it in place. But there is also the "I have it now" instead of "I have it whenever the delivery man can be assed to find my apartment and actually deliver it to me" factor even when I know what I want, and then it's just stores that make it hard for me to buy something that bother me. > How many brick and mortars have even an agregrate rating of their products listed right next to them? On this specific point, I have a phone. I don't need (or really want) the store to have this, I can have it any time I want to. When I'm surprised by something in a store, unless it's immediately obvious that it's something that I want and it doesn't suck, there's my phone to tell me if it's a sham. That said, I went out of my way to point out that I don't think it's better, just different. So yes, it is subjective.