Amazon is killing the world of commercial real estate. We need a 5% National Sales Tax on all online purchases to protect brick & mortar stores.
For every online Amazon purchase I make I pay 9.25% state sales tax. Doesn’t stop me from shopping Amazon, don’t have to drive 2 hrs round trip, if it’d wrong easy to return UPS RETURN IS FREE, 2 MILES AWAY, they carry a few shoes in my size, I don’t have to go to a NO GUN ZONE CRIME INFESTED ZONE WITH VERY LIMITED HANDICAPPED PARKING. And products are usually cheaper, plus I get reviews. All our malls carry are Street Walker Ethnic clothes for 20 yr old’s, very little for 77 yr old females.
Just ordered a new keyboard for my laptop, you’d have to pay a IT professional to buy, mark up + time. Hubby now retired taught computers/electronics/math and can change it out easy. I can order filters for the fridge too, which are expensive if you can find them in a retail store.