[orev]

Given the counterfeit problem on Amazon, I have been using the retailer as a proxy instead. I feel much more comfortable buying things from a known retailer like Target or Walmart, since I can rely on them to at least do some kind of due diligence on the products they carry. I think this will be the way forward for these companies to stay in business as Amazon becomes overrun with junk.

[prepend]

This Christmas I used Walmart more than Amazon over 21 years of previous “Amazon christmases.”

When I filtered for Walmart only my experience was great. No searching for ps5 and seeing Xbox ads, just stuff that matched my search.

Also Walmart shipping was 1-2 days and free. So I guess logistics is getting figured out when Walmart free is beating Amazon prime.

[mattmcknight]

Even though Walmart also has a marketplace full of mystery sellers, at least they still offer a simple filter at the outset to limit your results to only things they sell directly. At Amazon, you have to have already put another filter on your search results to see that option.

[KirillPanov]

Same here but with Home Depot instead.

They're pretty good at filtering out the absolute junk, because having customers return products is really expensive for brick+mortar retailers.

[jay_kyburz]

I use the retailer so that if the product breaks I can just walk back in and get my money back.