Is the "shine" coming off of Amazon a little bit for you

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I find myself using Amazon more and more as just a reference place to look up products that I then buy someplace else.

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This x1000.

Honestly over the last two years of terrible deals except on Amazon products and shipping issues, I am thinking of cancelling my prime account.

It is funny because this is what B&M stores complained about for so many years.

Nope, Amazon only gets better and better where I live.


We recently got the Treasure Truck in PHX metro....that's kinda fun to see what deals they are selling. You have to act fast though cause any deal they sell on the truck that day sells out in minutes usually.


Deliveries here only get quicker. Pretty much everything I order from Amazon prime arrives at my house 1-2 days later.

There are Amazon services here that will even get your stuff to you within 2 hours(some in just one hour). They have their version of UberEats that I haven't tried out yet as well.

Other places will catch up

Market has been disrupted some place will respond better than others


I try to remember when I get good service at a place and not penny pinch them

For me Aquarium store

I've used Amazon to get a lower price at a local store.

Many stores will match the Amazon price if you print out the Amazon product with its price shown and take it with you.

The item has to be exactly the same, such as model number for electronics.

I like amazon because of their return policy. I find myself buying all my sex toys from there. I can use and return what I don’t like and no questions are asked.

I never really had Prime problems

Could be your post office

Did fine you can't assume they are lowest price seems they pull some airline pricing sometimes bought something for $25 was thinking of doing another and it was $39 with only a few left

We sell most of the big box stores and Amazon and all of them have developed algorithms to check online prices. Amazon prices almost exclusively using these algorithms and sometimes they have just crazy high or crazy low prices on items we are familiar with that within a day all of their big online competitors match.

I think their growth is going to be in food and media. Growth in those areas will be huge.

I sense the growth of Amazon's market share in hard goods is slowing.

I would not be surprised to see Uber or Lyft get more involved in the delivery of goods--particularly heavier goods, food and drugs. (They both should get into the pickup truck business IMHO--send Uber to pick up at that sheet of plywood you bought at Home Depot with 2 hour pickup for example.)

I am in Nashville frequently and this two hour pick up thing is really big there. Kroger has a store near where I stay and I saw 8 cars picking up orders at their sidewalk pickup spot. It's easy to see how people would order food and pick it up on their way home from work.

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I never really had Prime problems

Could be your post office

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The only problem I've had is that the post office doesn't want to leave packages at your door like UPS, even when you've redirected delivery.


But Prime is worth $100/year just for music and video.

I did the brunt of my Xmas shopping yesterday afternoon on amazon..noticed the tax increase but is what it is. It is a good reference point as is google shopping.