I used to love shopping Amazon, until it appeared it was apparent that each purchase means a nail in the coffin for brick and mortar stores. Folks, it may not be long until touching, feeling, and trying a product before purchase becomes a thing of the past.
Now, I will only use Amazon for things I can't buy normally at the store. Even if it many paying a few dollars more for it.
To be fair, I think a lot of brick and mortar stores are going under because of their own bad business decisions. Look at Sears. Today, I read that the CEO is getting a raise -- while the company is crying that it is losing money. This is the latest in a long line of bad decisions that are killing the chain.
Then there are malls where many of these stores are located. Many of them have become unsafe. Too many gangstas roaming around. If they aren't shooting each other on mall property, they are shoplifting or sticking up the patrons or breaking into cars in the parking lots -- among other things. Mall owners make a lot of money gouging their tenants, but they refuse to spend the money to make their property safe. Add to that the crowds, particularly around the December holidays. Why go through the hassle and potential danger when you can sit at home in your jammies and buy online?
So it's not necessarily Amazon's fault that these retailers aren't smart enough to deliver a product with the speed, convenience, safety and customer service of Amazon.
I agree that there are some things I don't want to buy sight unseen online -- major appliances, for example. And I can't see ordering perishables like milk online, so there will always be stores -- although Amazon is experimenting with physical stores for those things you can't buy online. But for a lot of things -- particularly when the weather is bad or if it's really too much trouble to actually go to a store -- Amazon is all right with me.