[Slansitartop]

Yeah, I've drastically scaled back my Amazon shopping and scaled up my shopping at physical retailers like Best Buy and Barnes and Noble or specialized competitors like Newegg. My reasoning is:

1. Amazon Logistics delivery sucks and I hate them so much.

2. When you actually look, Amazon is no longer price competitive with big box retailers on a lot of products in a lot of areas.

3. I can get my stuff today rather than in ??? + 2 days.

4. I can actually see the stuff in person, and assess quality and size.

5. Much smaller counterfeit problem.

6. I'm afraid of Amazon getting too dominant in the retail space, so I feel good about sending business to its competitors.

I try to only go to Amazon when I'm buying something weird that I don't know how to buy elsewhere.

[sincerely]

Interestingly enough, I find Amazon often has worse prices for the relatively-niche books I used to swear by Amazon for - art and critical theory, mainly. They used to have the convenience aspect as well, but now I generally feel like I can get better service by buying from the publisher and I feel better about it for the anti-monopoly reason you touched on