Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? | Amazon | The Guardian Bezos bailed for a reason. Fun read, if noting else./
Amazon may be "rubbish", but that's a UK perspective. Over here in Murica, the Amazon collective employs many illegals and minorities, making this country happier and equally equal with its equality. Also, they are constantly expanding their empire, opening new distribution hubs all the time while Wal-Mart closes down stores. I think the vast majority of Americans just click-shop on Amazon daily, with zero regrets at all. It's a sickness and it's not going away any time soon.
pure socialist drivel. free market capitalism never existed on amazon. socialist and crony capitalism always fails. free market capitalism produces abundance and competition. to bad it no longer exists. from story “What do you expect? Capitalism always produces crises of production. Enshittification is just a sweary euphemism for capitalism.”
When brick and mortar don't carry it and won't get it, Amazon to the rescue. I spend a ton at the local hardware store over Lowes and Home Depot, buy parts at the locally owned auto parts store instead of a big chain, and it costs me more money. There are things they don't have, especially for my ham radio habit, and amazon becomes the only reasonable answer. We all made Amazon and it won't go away soon.
This, I TRY and TRY to buy from brick and mortar stores but a LOT of the time, I have to resort to Amazon. After driving around, wasting time and gas looking for something, I can go home, log on and in most cases, get it the next day.
Amazon it just like any other 'Big Box' store. It destroys the 'big box' store (Walmart, Meijers, Target) that destroyed your local/regional mom&pops or 3 county retail empires. Some items I'll pay more for like tools from the local hardware that seem to be better made anyway. Some items aren't available locally (well at least until Walmart came to town), but there are some items where I have to make a 6 hour drive round trip to the big city to get ... yeah, I'm ordering it on Amazon. Same goes for commodity items like paper products, pet supplies, bulk stuff .. save 30 percent and I don't have to expend fuel nor time to obtain it. Yeah, why wouldn't I use Amazon?
some dumbazz street thug tries to kill someone - How is there a decision to be made? think a resident wouldn't have been eventually shot? - the thug was out there most likely illegally armed as a standing criminal with priors back to his childhood - that USPS had to be cleaner just by the virtue of a FED job ......
I do 99% of my shopping online and Amazon is who I hit first. Why? Because they got it and it's almost always at the best price that you can find so why waste time searching other sites. Plus, there is no hassle about returning items and it's super easy. Their business model is solid as is their client base and, frankly, I don't see them going anyplace but into other markets, like prescription medicines. As far as the brick-and-mortar stores, it is what it is, times change, and customers cannot afford the extra cost to maintain those stores, nor do you get as great a selection of products.
