Amazon gets your orders to you in two days. How can local shops compete with that? Amazon also has stuff you can’t find locally, or at least can’t find without a lot of looking and store hopping.
“Amazon gets your orders to you in two days. How can local shops compete with that?”
How about the rest of us who need the damn thing NOW? I’m not the type of person who waits. Time is money (except being on FR). I know the difference at WalMart vs Amazon is $5, why the heck am I gonna wait days? My GF does Amazon only if she has the “I dont really need it now” attitude but if she wants to go to the mall (and drag me), she’ll do it.
Amazon is opening a store in NYC at the Time Warner Building. I don’t understand that exactly but that’s what they are doing.
Perhaps if you give them 99.00 a year for Prime, but as one that does not, but has placed many orders using the 29 and now the $49 free shipping option, i can say it takes about 5 or more days.
But its web site and service is more professional and better, than Walmart, which is hurting itself by substandard web site (less variety, wasted page space, sparse details, many out of stock or over priced 3rd party vendors. Basic foods are cheaper than Amazon though. and things like major appliances and cheap bikes are laid out well).
Thank God we have such though.
How so very true. I needed a new timer for my outdoor landscaping lighting. None to be found with any local retailers. Purchased online, delivered within 2 days.
“Amazon gets your orders to you in two days. How can local shops compete with that?”
By having inventory so that you can have it that same day.