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by lotsofpulp 2054 days ago
Are you suggesting that physically going to a Walmart and walking down the aisle to view all the toilet paper options is more "practical" than typing walmart.com, searching for toilet paper, and scrolling through the options?

Personally, I find it much easier to search for products at home. It's literally seconds versus at least 10 to 15 minutes to get to the nearest store and browse around. And what is the use case for browsing all of the products in a store? I can't imagine why I would need to walk around an entire Walmart.
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RcouF1uZ4gsC 2054 days ago
> Are you suggesting that physically going to a Walmart and walking down the aisle to view all the toilet paper options is more "practical" than typing walmart.com, searching for toilet paper, and scrolling through the options?

No.

I am saying that once you are at Walmart, staring at the the end cap toilet paper, it is more practical to just walk down the aisle scanning the rest of the toilet paper available, than it it is to go through the many pages of results on either walmart.com or amazon.

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lotsofpulp 2054 days ago
I guess that's true, but I don't see the purpose of that comparison.

Also, if the website is designed well, such as Home Depot, it's actually better to use the Home Depot website on your phone to find what you need, and it tells you exactly where it is in the aisle. It would take me longer to search through all the products in the aisle to find exactly what I need.

Might not be the case for an item such as Toilet Paper, but websites that let me drill down into the attribute of the product I need are super useful.

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stonogo 2054 days ago
> I guess that's true, but I don't see the purpose of that comparison.

There is more noise online, so signal-boosting efforts are disproportionately effective there. That's all.

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lotsofpulp 2054 days ago
Based on accounts I’ve read of what vendors have to do in order to sell on Walmart shelves (most notably reduce their quality to let Walmart be the lowest price), I think that conflict of interest would actually make shopping on the internet better.
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