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It's random. I would have to screenshot it when it happens. Basically the one time purchase box is not there. Subscribe and Save is at the top. Here is the second part of the problem that I mentioned.
How would you like to pay? Check: Yes, use my gift card balance. Future balance will be used as payment for this subscription. Continue. Please enter your payment information to continue.
Catch 22. I already checked the box to use my gift card balance as payment. That is what happens when you game the system too many times to get the 5% discount and then cancel the subscription. Amazon is weird. They really like to take a simple process and make it complicated.
I was thinking along these lines today. The extremes of the pandemic caused me to rely on Amazon for things I would normally buy in person. The default for me used to be to visit a store first to find something but now my default is to visit Amazon first.
Today I am expecting a delivery of coffee beans. From Dick Blick (an art supply retailer) I am expecting a delivery of art related goods.
In my case, shopping here is poor. I was already buying most of my clothing online. But we do buy small electrics in person, and we went to a dealer for our new to us car.
We do still visit our good local hardware store, our full service nursery and our local COSTCO. And of course we buy groceries in person.
But we buy loads of stuff online now, usually from Amazon.
In my immediate area we have lost three retailers and their spaces remain empty.
No, not necessarily so. The brick & mortar stores did. We saw a waffle maker with removable plates and other possible contenders. Been to several stores in various locations. Have seen one or two on display that we liked but no boxes on the shelves that we can pick up and put in our shopping cart. We've asked a couple employees. One told us to check back in a couple days. Did that. If they did get a shipment, must have all sold out. Maybe they got shipped to another location. Why put something on display if the store has no plans to stock their shelves?
Today, I ordered coffee beans and tea. I also ordered a set of waterbrushes for art work. I began ordering coffee because I disliked what I had been buying locally. i began ordering tea because my local grocer quit carrying that brand. I ordered the brushes because I don’t like what I bought locally.
Where Amazon shines is giving consumer more choices.
I saw an item I would have liked to get at my local HD store and the price was even better than that on Amazon. Ugh, am so tired of getting the line, “Unavailable” or “This item is unavailable at any of your stores within 100 miles of your zip code.”
Amazon is the king of online shopping. Ordering stuff online is a generational thing. Boomers likes to shop in person, millennials like to shop online.
Then explain how QVC and HSN are so popular with that crowd. And almost all of their ordering is online
I wonder is this is a generational thing.
I'm single, no kids, no pets. AND I'm over 60.
1) I still like to touch/feel items and see them in person before I buy.
2) I don't do returns. Just don't want to be bothered or have the patience or time. (So IF I do buy something and it turns out it's not what I want I give it to others or donate it. Either wan I'm out that money and still have to find what I would want.
That said.....
Even in 2020 I could count on just two hands the number of things I bought using Amazon.
And half of them were Covid related (masks, shields, sanitizer, etc), so if it hadn't been for that I might have only had about 5 orders.
Mostly my Amazon orders are gifts for others who live in other states. So I have the item sent directly to them. OR things I can't get at a local store. Such as the brown paper grocery bags I use for recycling.
I have one friend who even orders her toilet paper through Amazon. Whereas, I'm at either Walmart or the grocery store, or tagging along with someone to Costco....so I'm perfectly OK just buying TP, and anything else I need, at a store that I'm going to anyway.
I will say that still being new to Amazon (only that last three years), it does allow for price research and finding options I never would have known existed. Just a few minutes ago I ordered a pet travel bag for my sister, and had my choice of more than a dozen options. No way the local pet store would have had so much from which to choose.
Amazon is OK. But it's not like I live and breathe it.
Amazon is the king of online shopping. Ordering stuff online is a generational thing. Boomers likes to shop in person, millennials like to shop online.
Both DH and I were born in the 1940s, and we rely on Amazon. I buy my shoes from Zappos. I’ve been buying clothes online ever since catalog retailers offered that optionl
As usual generalizations about large groups of people are not accurate.
It's been an ongoing trend, just accelerated w/ covid. Hard to find stuff you need in brick n' mortar stores. I have to buy most stuff online. That has its own challenges though. And, shipping has gone up high. I shop around a lot for lower shipping. I bought something West coast, 8.00 shipping, took over 2 weeks to get here, maybe 2 1/2. Bought something online, West coast again, 4.95 shipping and here in 4-5 days. Big differences w/ companies. Don't shop from Amazon much, a few things I do get there w/ deep discounts, but like to shop w/ mostly small businesses.
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