I hate online shopping. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Despise it.

[whatthehey]

9. I love it and have had nary a problem with deliveries, which are due to UPS/USPS anyway

I suppose if all you want to buy are the same things from the same stores everybody else in a 30 mile radius shops AND you have full mobility AND all the time in the world to shop AND the patience to deal with customers who cannot park, then staff who cannot stock shelves, do not know their own store and cannot check out efficiently AND no problem wasting gas doing the rounds of all those stores then B&M shopping may work out great for you.

One huge issue for me is anything even vaguely unusual. This thread inspired me to check my recent purchases. They include magnetic hang tags for my disabled parking placards (my new state has tiny slots for the mirror hanger and like most modern cars mine is too thick. These things make it easy to just slap the placard onto the magnet and pull it off, saving the only other alternative of having to stretch to place and retrieve from the dash which again typically of modern cars is deep and sloped), a few pairs of elastic lock laces (try tying shoes with one workinghand) large front access screw top stackable dog food tubs, a cheap 10 pack of 16gb USB drives, a couple of pool noodles (make great door protectors for narrow garages), and a transparent lunch bag so I don't have to go through the security kabuki of opening my bag at the security station at work.

Could I find all those things in local shopping? Possible perhaps but both doubtful and hard to find. Where would you go for magnetic handicapped placard holders in a town of 30000? How many stores would you have to go to to get all those things? It took me maybe 1 minute each and no steps or miles, plus for the planet the microscopic amount of fuel a UPS truck already passing needs to make one more stop rather than however many miles I would have needed to go.