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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
This was pretty much me to some extent.
I remember the day that B&N made me a first time customer of Amazon (in the late 90's). They didn't have the newest book in a very popular series on release day (crazy, but I'd gone in just assuming they would have it) and was told that they wouldn't be stocking the book (and many others of the months new releases) until the end of that month or beginning of the next. But they could of course order it for me in which case I could wait for them to get it and then have to drive to the store a second time to pick it up. I went home and checked Amazon, who I'd heard of but never purchased from, and they not only had it for immediate shipment to my door, but it was discounted as well and I'd have it within the week. I still bought books from B&N, but more and more found myself just ordering it and not bothering to make a trip to a store which was becoming less and less fun to visit.
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That's about the time that I became an Amazon customer (2001 according to Amazon). Visiting B&N was part of my Saturday morning routine twice a month for a lot longer than that, but it eventually dwindled down to once a month, then finally I stopped going.