Post #3798790

2026-07-07 03:01 UTC

I’m not sure where many people in this thread are from, but I have a question in case some of you who are complaining about, “I don’t really have a choice,” are from the US. Do you guys not have other online retailers? I thought the US would have Walmart, Target, Costco, etc. so that you could avoid using Amazon. In Japan we don’t have brick and mortar retail stores like the ones I mentioned above that carry all sorts of random products, but we do have Rakuten, which is an online shop/marketplace similar to Amazon. Does Amazon really have a grip on all online retail there?

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@NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 2026-07-07 03:22

There are a plethora of options, but many will not tolerate even a millisecond of inconvenience to find a new website. Honestly, many of the alternative websites even ship faster at this point. Amazon is a marketplace of crap riding on former glory days of quick shipping.

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@CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-07 05:29

Amazon will do same-day delivery on a bunch of stuff if you’re in an area where it’s available. You can order shit while you’re at work and have it dropped off at your house by the time you’re home without having to stop at a store. I don’t live where same-day is available, but even ordering for pickup at brick and mortar adds 20+ minutes to my commute. A few minutes out of the way, waiting at the store, and hitting multiple traffic lights both ways isn’t a negligible amount of time.

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