Another convenience Amazon offers is their re-order “buttons.”
I have a neighbor who is handicapped and has toilet paper, paper towels, dog food, shaving cream and other necessary items delivered automatically every six weeks right to her home.
This is in heavy city traffic and she says has been a God-Send.
I’ve also seen “Amazon Fresh” trucks in San Francisco where moving one’s car and finding a parking spot - anywhere - can be a nightmare.
Yep, It’s great for those in the sticks and great for those where driving is terrible. Unless I’m mistaken, that is pretty much everywhere.
Maybe that is why Wal-Mart came up with Jet.com to compete against Amazon. They will die if they don’t.
BTW, below is my follow up post on that same musician’s site yesterday. A guy was arguing that “buying a musical instrument needs to be a physical experience for many”:
I don’t think there are enough customers that require that physical experience. And when it costs a lot more, even fewer will “need” it. Reminds me of “You’ve Got mail’, where the little shop thought they could change their business model and focus to compete with the big box store (Fox’s books). To me, that little store represents almost ALL brick and mortar stores and Fox represents not the internet, but Amazon, specifically.
There are some HUGE changes coming. And fast.