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Originally Posted by Tony1988
So it's better for me to receive a big honking hdtv in the mail, Find out it's a piece of crap. Repackage it and haul the big honking tv back to the post office and wait for a refund or replacement...???? How is that better??? I have a Best buy two miles from my house. I can buy and.replace a tv within an hour if need be and I don't even have to put it back in the box ...lol....I'm really trying to understand the big incentive of buying the bulk of ones goods online. I guess if you lived out where there were not many stores. But people imo are being duped into believing that somehow sitting at home waiting for packages to arrive is somehow better. It really isn't overall. I said this in another thread....even Amazon sees the need for physical stores....hence the fact that they bought Whole foods......they found that people ordering fresh food online really doesn't work all that well ..
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I live in a retirement home in a small town and I have no car so without Amazon I'd have a hard time buying anything. We do have a Walmart here and I often compare prices on things I'm thinking of buying. Walmart on the stuff I buy is generally between 10% and 20% higher and on some things they're 50% higher. Cables and micro SD cards are examples of the biggest differences. There are a few things cheaper at Walmart so I buy some tech from them. But Amazon has them beat on most things.
I get free shipping on most stuff with my Prime account. That does cost $120 a year but that's cheaper than paying someone to give me a ride to Walmart. And if I want to return something they'll send UPS or someone to my door to pick it up. I have no easy way to get things to the post office.
So is it better? You bet it's better for me. That's not true for everyone, of course, but it does seem to be true for a lot of people.
And better yet is the fact that Walmart and Amazon are competing heavily. We customers win that competition.
Walmart is a lot smarter than B&N. They've done sleazy things in the past and made serious mistakes but unlike B&N they've learned from them and now they give excellent service. I wonder what their service would be like if Amazon wasn't also giving excellent service.
Neither Amazon nor Walmart or any other retailer can decide who wins that competition. Customers do. I personally think what's happening right now in retail is pretty nice.
Barry