[luckylion]

> I have to return so much stuff, live with so many things that I don't actually love, generate sooooo much trash, and spend hours on hours researching everything because I can't hold it in my hand.

I hate the research part, especially Amazon hasn't improved their system since the late 2000s. I'm sure lots of great improvements on the logistics and business-development side, but the store feels like hobby project and "we couldn't make filtering work, so whatever".

But on the trash part: you generate visible trash. But if you frame it slightly differently: the mall you'd go to needs to be built and heated and fully staffed, and thousands of cars need to drive there etc etc, and that consumes a lot of resources. It's just not visible, and with online-shopping it is. But I'm pretty sure online-shopping is more efficient even if you have to return 4 out of 5 shoes.

[malfist]

Didn't you see? Amazon improved it by putting the option to have an AI pick out the "best" of 2,000 identical items

Amazon is actively killing the usefulness of their store in a race to beat ali express and temu to the bottom

[lesuorac]

> I hate the research part, especially Amazon hasn't improved their system since the late 2000s.

Pretty sure it's regressed. I think there used to be a bunch more filters you could do based on a product category that I think went away as they added more products.

Real annoying when you want like a 4 GB memory card and it splits up your input of "4 GB" into "4", "GB" and then shows you everything with a "4" or a "GB" in it...

[luckylion]

> Real annoying when you want like a 4 GB memory card and it splits up your input of "4 GB" into "4", "GB" and then shows you everything with a "4" or a "GB" in it...

I'm still not convinced it's not a social experiment to find out just how much it will take to make users give up and go away.

Or the size filter on clothes. Great, I can filter by size to only see pants that'll fit me. Wow, nice selection, let's open this one. Ohh... it has that size in general but it isn't available. I've come this to just writing a scraper, getting all the data and then filtering it properly just so I can buy some pants.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

> the mall you'd go to needs to be built and heated and fully staffed, and thousands of cars need to drive there etc etc

And that isn't the case with the logistics for fulfilment centers and storage scattered all over the place? Just not visible to you, but as per your example times 4, which wouldn't be the case if you get something that fits at the first try.

[hamandcheese]

> and "we couldn't make filtering work, so whatever".

They actively _do not_ want you to be able to find what you need, that would mean you don't look at their ads.