You make a good and constructive point. A real everything store _should_ have both a "100w USB-C Power Adapter", and a "Long Life 100W USB C Premium Apple Android Galaxy Power Adapter US International iPad iPhone good luck LIFESTYLE".

Ah but which one to pick? There's 20 with different capitalized names, all using the same 3 stock images, all with a mix of good reviews and reviews for entirely different products.

It's good to have such choice.

Feels like arguing semantics instead of replying to the stated wish

I can't get a hitman on amazon, so technically it's not an "everything store" to begin with. But for the purposes of this conversation it clearly is

no, now, you're thinking of Silk Road or some such.

The vast vast majority of consumers will only expect to find legal products/services on an everything store. If you are going to qualify everything to include things that will potentially land the user in prison, then sure, we shouldn't call it everything.

I think you’re making gps point. No customer wants or expects spam crap in the everything store. The everything store doesn’t literally need to sell “everything”.

good response

Could you use a amazon tuckle though?

"everything" but only the "high quality" (or highER quality) instances of everything. seems pretty reasonable.

This is harder than it looks..

Is there a "quality filter" setting you can toggle on and off? Who decides what goes on which side of the filter? At Amazon's scale, it would have to be automated.

Much like search SEO and every other algorithm, people would start to figure out how to game it, and eventually Amazon would give up trying to police it because it would cost them more money than it's worth, and you're back to where you started except now you have an additional - and inaccurate - "quality" attribute on every product.

I'm sure they already do this. Just not well enough. They err too far on the side of inclusion for our tastes.

Costco/Nordstroms/Apple/Lululemon/etc.

Even BestBuy/Target/Walmart/Home Depot/Lowes/Staples/REI/etc to an extent, if the item is sold by them. Stores with physical inventory and presence that have to worry about rates of return will probably do more due diligence than an online marketplace.

With inventory mixing, in service of "Fulfilled by Amazon" that is what Amazon used to have, and lost.

Yes, but it’s been known Amazon has been commingling inventory for 10+ years.

It’s just an AliExpress with a better return policy, which is worth something when I need something cheap to solve a niche problem.

But my serious purchases all happen elsewhere.