It’s really painful to search on Amazon you get pages of off aliexpress garbages unless you select just the exact search terms. Even then after like 3-4 items it switches to a random knock off. I searched for a specific watch battery and by item 4 it was no longer even the same battery style wtf.
Got themselves to blame.<p>They gave up on prime deliveries arriving in two days sometime last year and they raised the price of Prime. Maybe they think I'm going to stay subscribed to Prime out of inertia and keep buying stuff from AMZN out of inertia but it isn't so.<p>I'm not going to accept any excuse about why AMZN can't do 2 day delivery anymore because every other online retailer (Walmart, Target, BestBuy, Adorama, Office Depot) sees fast shipping as a way to impress me. Even Ebay orders from Japan get to me faster than AMZN orders.<p>It adds insult to injury that, at about this time, AMZN announced they'd have same day and 1-day delivery to a few anointed urban areas. Like where my congressman lives in Washington, DC and where people who work in the media in New York and Los Angeles live.<p>They'll be writing about this one in business school case studies for a long time.
Not surprised.<p>Over the last several months I have consciously been avoiding my knee-jerk of ordering from Amazon and going to Costco instead, after a few price comparisons convinced me how much more affordable Costco prices are.<p>I’m sure I’m not alone in this. Anecdotally noticing huge crowds at Costco.