Re:How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
by cleandreams on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:01PM
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No. I know a lot of people upset with Amazon in large part because they have devastated Main Street. Convenience is not the only human value worthy of consideration. I do use them sometimes, but even then, for some products it's a bad experience because you get fakes.
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Re:How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
by ntsplnkv2 on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:22PM
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How much has Amazon really decimated "Main Street?"
Wasn't it already decimated by the big box retailers and Wal-Mart?
Re:How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
by eropple on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:43PM
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"Your Honor, Main Street was already bleeding out from Sam Walton's knife attack when Amazon ran over it with a car" is not a wonderful defense.
Re:How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
by bluGill on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:26AM
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Main street was already on life support long before Sam Walton got involved. High prices is not a good business model for commodity items people but often. Any one of them could have lowered prices to something reasonable and stopped my parents monthly drive to the big city malls for the basics.