[Alberta's Child]

Amazon always had one major flaw in its business model. They have lower real estate costs than traditional retailers with “brick & mortar” stores, but the downside was that they pick up an enormous cost associated with home deliveries that customers of traditional retailers do for free.

I would also add that these online retailers do an awful job of home deliveries. In the last two years I have placed three online orders. They arrived in 11 different shipments … and only FOUR of them were delivered to the correct address.

[steve86]

I place three online orders a week and they all get here.