[aeharding]

On the other hand, I go to a grocery store not because it has potatoes and onions but because it has a couple niche items that are much less popular (but that are essential to me). This allows me to make one visit to one store.

I go to a grocery store that has my niche items, but I also buy popular items that are expected at every grocer.

(My grocery store has to have good tasting cheap milk, full fat large container fage yogurt, fresh & authentic croissants, lemongrass, red lentils, etc.)

If one store has a monopoly on full fat fage yogurt but doesn't have lemongrass, I'll make a compromise of going to the store with lemongrass and buying some other brand of yogurt from them. Making one store visit is important to me.

[jp555]

Not sure about that analogy. Ingredients tend to get mixed together in many ways to make many different kinds of meals.

You can only watch one show at a time, and the marginal effort of "travelling between stores" - flipping from Netflix to Youtube/Amazon/HBOGo/Etc, is essentially zero.

[wlesieutre]

Only if you assume a subscription to each of those services, instead of just one. It'd be like $100/month if you wanted access to every single streaming service.

[aeharding]

It might be a low barrier for some, but for me I don't want to manage multiple services which could contain duplicated content (less value per $). In this case, I'll choose the most valuable service to me as a compromise.