Barnes and Nobel and Underarmour collects taxes on their sites. I believe all of the department stores do as well.
they have in state stores.
the solution is to buy the same stuff out of country or state.
A lot of stores do because they operate real stores in states. To some degree, Amazon did compete against the bookstores by suggesting that you were “saving money” when in fact they just weren’t collecting your sales tax.
Amazon has actually been collecting sales tax for years — but only for resales on stores based in your state. I’d have a few things I bought each year that were taxed. I made sure to exclude them from my calculations.
But i don’t make my online purchase decisions based on sales tax, or even always based on price (most of the time it is price). Sometimes it is just convenience — getting any product I want at my doorstep in 2 days, rather than having to run out to a store.