Posted on 08/20/2013 12:55:21 PM PDT by redgolum
You might think the biggest challenge for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is figuring out how to make money running a print newspaper, but here is a risk hitting much closer to home: Brick-and-mortar retail stores are becoming cheaper than Amazon
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But the mall is still the mall, with all that noise and teenagers and everything else that makes the mall suck. And of course there’s availability, and all your stuff is never in the same store. I don’t shop at Amazon for the price, if I’m willing to put effort in I can usually beat their price, I shop there for the convenience, one stop shopping don’t even have to be decent.
Great! Glad to read that local stores have once again become competitive. When retailers compete, consumers win!
I will happily use all shopping options to my advantage.
it just depends. sometimes it’s better in stores, sometimes not. sales, specials, either place may be better. but store sales taxes sometimes negate a better dal, sometimes shipping may negate a better deal.
I sell stuff on-line....Have for years.
Amazon is the most difficult place for me to sell anything.....
I quit selling there. Their format is cumbersome...confusing...And they hold my money too long.
When Walmart goes “Peapod” I’m in...........
I love on-line shopping, whether it's Amazon or some other place.
You got that exactly right. On an item under $100 weighing over 2 lbs, individual item shipping gets expensive.
For example I sold several used golf clubs of mine on eBay, for between $20 and $100, and the shipping runs $10-20 depending on weight.
Exactly. The time and effort involved in buying something at a brick and mortar store is prohibitive
We’re over 150 miles from malls and big stores. We got the Amazon Prime this year and it has been a blessing. My wife is a baker and looking down her list of orders it is apparent how much we saved instead of driving. Yeast, vanilla, spices, all the small stuff she orders with Prime. We make the journey to town every month or two for the heavy flour and sugar and stuff.
Either remove the sales tax everywhere, or apply it equally everywhere. Otherwise, you’re just subsidizing on-line retailers at the expense of local merchants. Neither should be subsidized, and neither should be targeted for taxes the other does not pay.
75% of my shopping cart on Amazon always comes back as “we can’t mail to you” since I am in the Alaska bush.
They used to send everything here.
I use them less and less.
I can find anything on amazon. But I really like the reviews, no tax and that I can shop for best price. Amazon has so many advantages for me in country.
Mrs. R2 bought a new printer last month. She was at Best Buy. What she wanted was $199.00.
I was at work but Amazon’d’ the same printer. $149.00.
So she told the salesguy no, her husband was gonna get it on Amazon.
They price matched it.
They verified it was the same model # and they gave it to her for the same price it was listed for on Amazon.
Way cool.
No paying for shipping and she had it home and on line the same day.
First of all, I don’t believe that any thing at any mall is cheaper. Second, I’ve become a recent Amazon convert because I can get things there that I can’t get anywhere else and the guarantee is 100%.
If you go to the mall, you will not find the German reissue on 180-gram vinyl of an obscure 1970 psyche record issued in an edition of 500 about 3 years ago.
Amazon: copies offered by Amazon itself, and 3 different sellers.
I agree that the local mall is full of losers and I avoid it.
But Amazon loses me to the free-standing big box stores most of the time, like Kohls, Best Buy, Costco, Lowes.
Our family returns 1/3 of the clothes and shoes we order online due to poor fit. Books are usually ok online, but shopping in an actual bookstore is fun, not work. Other items I really need to look over before I buy. And returning stuff by mail is a hassle.
The Internet is absolute gold, though, for making reservations for events and planning trips. There is no brick and mortar place that can equal it.
we are remodeling our kitchen with new cabinets and appliances. my contractor told me to order my appliances from Amazon if they were cheaper. The refrigerator i wanted was cheaper on Amazon and it’s being delivered today. free delivery. No free haul away as Home Depot offers, but we are keeping the old fridge as a second one, out in the garage.
So the stores are going to start checking the id of their buyers, charging and remitting sales tax to their customers home state/county/city?
Let me know when that happens.
But that is what they are demanding on-line stores do.
I hate Amazon haters.
Most of us had always referenced that by saying you were "off the deep end..." < /grinning, running >
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