I have a love hate relationship with Amazon. I hate their politics, but I find if I need stuff I either have to chase between stores rarely finding what I wanted, spend time searching the online sites for regular stores only to find none in the area have the item I’m looking for in stock or conveniently order from Amazon.
In many ways Amazon has become what Sears Roebuck was 125 years ago when Sears sold everything in their catelogue from whole houses to heroin (prior to the 1909 Food and Drug Act). Brick and mortar stores at the time hated Sears because they sold everything, didn’t pay taxes in the states where they did business and provided lavishly illustrated catelogues for free. Old Sears catalogues even provided reading material and toilet paper for many outhouses.
Interesting that Sears, Wards and other catelogue retailers are long gone, while many of the local brick and mortar stores survived. Amazon will in time meet a similar fate.
Yeah I try to give brick and mortar stores a chance but half the time you get nothing in stock or some useless employee with a bad attitude. Amazon has given me time back.