[pgrote]

> dominate force on the commerce front

During the height of the pandemic Amazon's performance suffered for us. Prior to the pandemic 100% of our online purchases came from Amazon mostly due to inertia. Find something, order it, it shows up.

Amazon faltered. Lots of things out of stock, delayed delivery, missing items in shipments. We then turned to ebay and shopify and experienced none of those things. The spending is probably now 50% ebay, 30% amazon and 20% shopify now.

The decentralization approach to ecommerce is really coming through now ... at least for us.

I was surprised what a great experience it was buying from ebay and shopify. I hope they don't work to centralize things in the future.