Perspective: It's not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The Washington Post Retweeted

On this, #BlackFriday, an honest question:

Is Amazon actually a good place to go shopping?

In my
@washingtonpost
column, I argue it’s gotten demonstrably worse. Everything on Amazon is becoming an ad.

Join me on a search for a few products 🔎🛒

https://wapo.st/3Xv8pxt

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Perspective | It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse
Most of what you see at first on Amazon is now an ad.

Link to tweet

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. threadreaderapp link...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1596227247450431489.html

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. It still beats schlepping thru a mall.

I've noticed them, sure. A few flicks on the scroll wheel and I'm past. Sometimes I even see an ad for pretty much what I'm looking for, anyway.

With so much else to get upset about, I just never thought that scrolling past a few ads should ruin my whole day.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Eventually, everything turns into an ad...

Does anybody really think that recent politics has been because we are "polarized?"

Nope. The ad industry has made literally billions upon billions of dollars off of politics, and it's not declining, it's getting worse.

It's all about the bucks, maybe, but more importantly it's about where the bucks are going. Sure, it's going to media and the politicians. But mostly it's going to the ad agencies, making and selling commercials.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. The political donation emails are still pouring in.

Usually, the amount of mail drops off after the election, but I'm still getting 75-100 a day from various political groups. It's starting to really piss me off.

[Chainfire]

4. Us Troglodytes still appreciate Amazon and eBay.

My only complaint is that shipping times on both have gone downhill.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

8. Shipping slowed down when they started farming out to USPS! I still get most Prime packages in 2 day

If it's big, heavy enough for a box shipment.

Ordered some trail shoes and water shoes today, be here Monday, I'm good with that, 50% off!

[highplainsdem]

5. Just bought 4 items on Amazon I'd been thinking about for a while.

Yes, I did see a lot of ads for sponsored products, but I just scrolled down past those.

Total shopping time probably under half an hour. No crowded stores and parking lots to have to deal with. And I got some Black Friday deals, too, though not on all of them.

Prime delivery won't be only two days as usual, or only one day as sometimes happens, but I should have three of the items Tuesday and one on Wednesday.

Seems pretty good to me. I'm waiting for a delivery of three items now, items ordered early this week, with another one coming tomorrow, also from Amazon.

Total shopping time for all 8 items was probably under an hour. Though a few were items I'd bought before, and some were items I'd done some thinking about months ago.

I'm pretty happy with Amazon.

[Hortensis]

9. Yes. Like you I search for what i want and haven't noticed

a problem, though I do routinely compare prices -- for cause. Today I skipped Amazon to order from Walmart an inexpensive sleep set to just pick up for my post-op husband.

Unfortunately, it presumably turned into a really boring Black Friday Christmas present between the time I ordered and came by to pick it up with the rest of our order. So now it's coming from Amazon, in a couple days to our door.

Of course these days there were also hundreds of other places to order it from as well.

[48656c6c6f20]

6. Is it just me but I see more to this article

A company owned by the same owner of their other company is criticizing it them they?
Maybe I'm just looking for good in the world but this give me a tad bit of hope. Could you imagine Eloon bad mouthing tesla on Twitter? No just the opposite.