Online vs In-Store Shopping

you're overlooking the price differences between these two modes of shopping.

yet another reason to just shop online or at mom-and-pop shops

This is why i do most of my shopping online. its not about price or laziness, but about selection. retail stores usually only stock the worst brands of anything.

Lately I've been buying things from non-amazon stores. price difference has been negligible for me.

I do the opposite to the author; shopping online where I can not see and/or try the product because it is cheaper. Even the big supermarket like Wallmart, in the UK (ASDA, Tesco, Sainsbury and Co.) often fail short of having the best offers in-store.

i don't think they are necessarily cheap. i buy from them because they are convenient and have everything. I only want one online shopping identity and even if toothpaste is more expensive there, i go ahead and get it over heading to the store many times.

I’ll pay more to not drive to a brick and mortar at this point. I don’t want to get in my car and go to Best Buy or Target or whatever and hope they’re stocking what I want, when I know I can get it in two days from Amazon or another online retailer. I’ve been bitten by that too many times. I sometimes miss browsing in person, but I don’t miss wasting my time.

Buying things online? Have you tried purchasing from anywhere else? The level of convenience is night and day.

Look, there are a lot of different shopping scenarios. Maybe I know that I need a right-angle adapter from HDMI male to HDMI mini male. Think about the two options here:1) Go to Amazon (or Monoprice, or whatever - it's online vs local that I'm talking about here), search for "right-angle adapter from HDMI male to HDMI mini male", and look through the result photos until you find something that looks correct, most likely somewhere on the first page. If it were a more expens

Best bang for buck is not at amazon.