Amazon bringing retail ‘4 star’ store to Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall

[pierretong1991]

I personally cancelled my Amazon Prime account. It encouraged overspending with the ease of purchasing/shipping speed and I had mixed results with the quality of some products.

[robin3904]

Originally Posted by pierretong1991

I personally cancelled my Amazon Prime account. It encouraged overspending with the ease of purchasing/shipping speed and I had mixed results with the quality of some products.

I'm considering cancelling Prime because most things are cheaper in the store, and it's so easy to find most things I need in stores locally here. I would probably use it more if I lived somewhere that wasn't the case. And like you say, product quality has gotten pretty unreliable. Usually when I'm looking to order from Amazon, it's some odd product that's harder to find in stores, and I find myself in the weeds with all the product options sold by companies that don't seem like real companies but somehow have hundreds of glowing product reviews, or a bunch of identical-looking listings under different brand names. It feels like a roll of the dice ordering from there nowadays.

One positive to the in-person store experience is you're less likely to end up with counterfeit, expired, or otherwise sketchy products. But to me, Amazon 4-star stores would make more sense in places that aren't already saturated with shopping options. I'm sure they have their reasons for choosing that location though.

[ucctgg]

Originally Posted by robin3904

I'm considering cancelling Prime because most things are cheaper in the store, and it's so easy to find most things I need in stores locally here. I would probably use it more if I lived somewhere that wasn't the case. And like you say, product quality has gotten pretty unreliable. Usually when I'm looking to order from Amazon, it's some odd product that's harder to find in stores, and I find myself in the weeds with all the product options sold by companies that don't seem like real companies but somehow have hundreds of glowing product reviews, or a bunch of identical-looking listings under different brand names. It feels like a roll of the dice ordering from there nowadays.

One positive to the in-person store experience is you're less likely to end up with counterfeit, expired, or otherwise sketchy products. But to me, Amazon 4-star stores would make more sense in places that aren't already saturated with shopping options. I'm sure they have their reasons for choosing that location though.

It is usually good business to put the stores where the most people are. Amazon will always choose Raleigh over Bunn or Dunn.