I agree that Amazon's big advantage to a consumer is one-stop shopping, and also use them frequently as a "big search engine". I did notice just this week that on their Kindle book site, they have taken away the "wish list" function which I often use to gather items to compare when browsing. Wonder if this was intentional to encourage use of the 1-click Buy button.
While I also hate to see one company monopolize any service, I like cheap prices. And before I knock Amazon too much, I have to remember how many years and how much capital investment it has taken Amazon to get where they are today?
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