It's very hard for retailers to compete with Amazon since they had such a head start in online retailing. But now that hard left Jeff Bezos has turned the selling of server space into a speech squelching enterprise, it's time for those of us Amazon addicts to try what avenues there are to at least cut back on the habit.
Of course, you can drive around to your local stores, and I'll now try to do a bit more of that. But retailers generally are at a loss to find a way to get an online presence and service anywhere near what Amazon offers.
I've heard that Amazon is facing a bit of unrest from its merchants. They're charging them a lot, minimizing their brand identity and even selling Amazon brand competing products. They might be ripe for some sort of competing service which gives merchants a better deal.
Meanwhile I searched around today and found that Walmart's online presence isn't bad. It's not nearly as good as Amazon but is serviceable. They offer free delivery for orders over $35, and also an Amazon Prime – like subscription service that they call Walmart+ which gets you free delivery on selected products regardless of the price. They also offer a credit card that gets you 5% back on all products ordered through their website. The site is at least good enough to compare prices before blind usage of the Amazon route.
Unfortunately, Walmart has just recently joined all the virtue signaling big businesses who are suspending political contributions to those congressmen who dared to follow their own judgement in the matter of accepting the presidential electors. They seem a little tentative in explaining their decision however, perhaps in concern over the opinions of their "smelly" customers.
Anyway, maybe those of us good guys should give some thought to rooting for the underdog, at least just to promote good old American free enterprise competition.
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