Amazon delivery speedy

[okeydokey]

By and large I like to see what I am buying in a shop before buying it from them, I also try to support buy locally when I can.
Others in the household click and buy and it just arrives on the doorstep.

To the point ----- my wife ordered some gloves via Amazon about 11.30 yesterday ---- ok -----then they were delivered about 19.30 the same day --,-- still ok and better than ok
But it doesn't sit well with me, I cant easily explain why but its just not right!

 

[MikeJhn]

When you where young did you knock on your neighbours door and run away, if so Amazon are recruiting and you are an ideal person for their work force.

 

[Terry - Somerset]

By and large I like to see what I am buying in a shop before buying it from them, I also try to support buy locally when I can.
Others in the household click and buy and it just arrives on the doorstep.

To the point ----- my wife ordered some gloves via Amazon about 11.30 yesterday ---- ok -----then they were delivered about 19.30 the same day --,-- still ok and better than ok
But it doesn't sit well with me, I cant easily explain why but its just not right!

Don't know what gloves - gardening, woolly or fancy - but I assume search and click took less than 10 minutes.

Contrast with go to town to buy - perhaps 5 miles each way, parking, find shop with stock etc. All in cost £5-10 and 1-2 hours.

No surprise why click has diminished the high street.

That it doesn't sit right may be a function of age - I was brought up in an era where gratification involved effort (catch bus etc) and payment involved real money (not click or tap).

 

[Rhossydd]

That it doesn't sit right may be a function of age - I was brought up in an era where gratification involved effort (catch bus etc) and payment involved real money (not click or tap).

As someone in their mid 60s I absolutely love it.

It's easy to forget just how difficult it could be to buy anything out of the ordinary before the internet.
Wading through magazines, catalogues or the Yellow pages to find suppliers, phoning to check stock. Then either half a day travelling somewhere to buy it or worse having to send a letter with a cheque and then having to wait for it to get there, the cheque to clear, the supplier to package it and the post office deliver it.
Now search, a few clicks and it's on the door mat the next day.

 

[Vulcan]

I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon provided it’s the right price. Just recently I’ve been getting stuff like cleaning materials in bulk and it’s half the price of the supermarket.
I bought some booze a while back at a hefty discount over the shops. Sadly they sent me a 1 Litre bottle by mistake instead of the 70cl I paid for.

 

[Inspector]

When it is something I know where I can get it locally and the price difference isn't ridiculous I'll buy it when out making the shopping rounds. When it will entail hunting around going from store to store then I'll order from an online business or Amazonk. An example being the switch on my 20ish year old asian made bench grinder broke. I would have had to search the city, burning a lot of gas before finding a place that would have to order it in. A tool company Busy Bee (the people I got the grinder from in BC) had it for $16Cad plus shipping and were out of stock. Amazonk had it for $14Cad with free shipping. Had it a few days later. I'm rural so it takes longer than you city dwellers. The grinder was back in action 5 minutes later. The convenience of buying from Amazonk can't be understated but you have to weigh it against someone local having a business.

Pete

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

As someone who is disabled and often house bound I find on line ordering a real benefit

 

[treeturner123]

I'm with Okeydokey, BUT, as so much now is sold on line, shops, ie physical entities that you go in, chat to the sales staff etc, have less and less of what I'm after.

It's very rare form me to get home after a shopping expedition and say ' I got everything on my list'!

However, I do click and collect from Screwfix which is on an industrial estate in town AND I have discovered that our local hardware which mixes Dulux paint, is CHEAPER than B&Q!!!!

Anyway, I'm just off to town to see if I can get a left handed toothbrush and decent sized Skyhook!!!

Phil