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

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42. We seem to have different ideas of what falling apart on execution means

because again Amazon's batting 1.000 over thousands of deliveries for me, and have return/credit/complaint policies that are frankly massively biased towards the buyer. But they could fuck up the next 50 things I order and still be on the sunny side of saving me the huge amount of wasted hours (days probably cumulatively speaking) and miles and gallons (ok for me KWh for the last few years, but hey) spent traipsing around dozens of different stores hoping they might have what I want, especially in my size in a decent color for example.

To get off every liberal's favorite whipping boy of Amazon, the shoe sites amaze me, and not just the now-Amazon-owned Zappos. Any size, most colors, thousands and thousands of styles dozens of brands shipped next day free/included return next day free if they don't work. All in a deeply tactile and aesthetic market space with competition in every mall. Sure they wasted a bunch in shipping for me to work out I need to buy 0.5 sizes up in Puma and 2.5 sizes down in Propet (no kidding they make great shoes but they must use clowns as size models) but can buy Skechers and Nike and Merrell and Rockport in "my" size but now I don't have to gimp my way down those anorexic teen-sized aisles and reach up to move all the size 14s and 7s out of the way to find my normal size is out of stock in the normal colors, then find somne substitue and line up 6 deep while the silly security tags are removed and the hapless minimum wage cashier has to search each box like we could be smuggling uranium then check each price with the manager because there are ten different sale tags on each box. I just click and the next day exactly what I want shows up.