Never had a package stolen. Amazon either gives the package to me directly, to a neighbour or lets me pick it up at the post office which luckily rarely happens
Or alternatively, I live in the woods and it’s 60 min round trip to anywhere and there were never local stores near me to begin with, and between kids, jobs, chores, and house projects it’s just too damn convenient not to pull out a phone and have something come the next day- not like I’d have time on a week night to go out and buy it anyway, and then I get all the way to the store and they dont have what I’m looking for.
I detest Amazon practices, but I don’t have a real alternative that doesn’t just shift all the burden to me. I could “make a stand” but it doesn’t solve any of my problems and adds quite a few.
People want what Amazon provides, and I’d happily give my money to another company without shitty practices if one were available- but there in lies the problem. It’s a near total monopoly.
Online shopping used to mean lower prices and a bit of a wait.
Nowadays it’s: more expensive because of shipping, delivery not doing their job or even stealing your shit, which leads to you having to pick it up at a place further from your house than the store that sells it.
Over here they are supposed to deliver it to you in person but half the time (if not more) they’ll just leave a “you weren’t home note” even though you took the day off and then drop it off at a pickup point.
Downside is that i can’t stop online shopping because the stores never carry what i need.
Amazon Lock boxes are like PO boxes but free, you just order with one as a destination and you put a code in and it unlocks a locker with your item in it
I don’t like Amazon but I mean this does pretty much defeat porch piracy
Ehh, call me a 🤡 but I kinda like sitting at home to browse, pay for the thing that doesn’t even exist at another store, then go get it at the post office 2 blocks away from home, right beside the grocery store, on my way home when it’s ready.
IMO it’s not really reasonable to blame the consumer for the shitification of Amazon. The only things that could have stopped this would have been more rigorous regulatory action against Amazon’s mergers and anticompetitive practices years ago.
Successful businesses tend towards monopoly and once they’re close to that position it’s almost impossible for individual consumers to do anything about it.
never in my life had a package stolen, where is this happening? I hear about it constantly but in all my homes in many areas and being incredibly lazy about getting them from the porch…???
Happened to me once. I told Amazon that the package was missing and they sent me a new one, not a single question asked. Granted, it was only a headset for 50 bucks, but still.
Where I live we almost only have mom and pops shops. So I support them as much as I can, but yea it’s hard to get stuff without Amazon , electronic parts and other more specific stuff. Yea Amazon is evil, but just a symptom of a sick system. It’s not hard to see why they are successful. I would use a similar system in a socialist society
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