I've often pondered if online shopping will eclipse in-store purchases. But as things develop, I grow more assured that it won't happen. I was reminded of one reason why that is so again this morning. I ordered a couple of books from Amazon yesterday. All of them are currently in stock. Despite that fact, I checked on the information today and found that the books would not ship until Sept 10. So, it takes 6 days to ship books that are currently in stock. Let alone the 7-12 days that it will take to get to me from there (Which that part, at least, is my choice for saving money on shipping.)
Simply put, 6 days to ship materials that are in stock when you order them is just insane. I remember my second year of college, I ordered a CD from Amazon and receieved it 2 days later. That was impressive. Sadly, it's been a downhill trend ever since then. Unless the major online retailers begin to speed up their process again, I don't see places like Amazon staying competitive. In this particular case, the books were quite a bit cheaper online, so I'm tolerating it in this case. But when Amazon is increasingly offering less than a 5%-10% difference in price on many items, I see less and less reason to make use of them.
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