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Originally Posted by Karellen
I think Amazon makes people lazy.
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Spoken like someone who lives relatively near shops where they can buy things in a pinch/hurry. Maybe that's not the case (and I apologize if it's not), but I find that people who have easy/quick/close physical access to most of their needs are often the ones who tend to espouse this attitude.
I have many reasons I use Amazon; none of which have anything to do with being an Amazon lover or apologist (as so many people are quick to label people who don't despise anything and everything about Amazon by default). The two big ones are:
1) When it comes to retail; I am 45 minutes to an hour's drive away from everything except a grocer, a drugstore, and a Dollar General. So considering fuel and auto maintenance, buying stuff online (and I don't buy groceries or drugs online) is more cost effective and a much better use of my time. Lazy? I'll let others quibble over that definition.
2) I've learned the hard way that having your credit card info spread all over stores on the internet (if I wanted to shop around outside of Amazon to find "better" bargains) is a recipe for disaster from a security standpoint. So I consider using Amazon as my primary source of non-perishable online retail goods (retail goods I don't have to drive two hours round-trip to find) to be much more secure. Even if not the most economical.
And no, I would never order tissues from Amazon. So I don't agree that "Amazon
makes you lazy." Do I think that people with lazy tendencies might use Amazon in a lazy manner? You bet. But that's a different topic.