Shopping Online Rules
I am so done shopping at brick-and-mortar stores. The last few days I just had too many frustrating experiences. What a waste of time! I got a copy of the movie Sahara from Peerflix, which is a pretty cool service by the way, but it wouldn’t play and I really want to see the movie so I was a Target and checked to see if they had a copy in the video section. I would’ve bought it even at full price, which really doesn’t make a lot of sense, but they were sold out. Then on my way home I stopped at a store called The Learning Center to pick up some addition flash cards for my son. Of course, they had every flash card imaginable, but were sold out of addition. Finally today, I needed a four foot card table, so I went Office Depot and, of course, they were sold out of four foot card tables. What a nightmare for them because instead of coming back later or buying something else, I’m just going to buy these items directly on the Internet and most likely from someone else with cheap or free delivery, no sales tax, and a lower price.
Recently, I’ve even been shopping for groceries on the Internet. I happen to have a computer in my kitchen and it’s super convenient order food from Safeway.com right there in my kitchen where I can see exactly what I have and what I don’t have. They also remember what you purchased before. And they don’t charge by weight so if you want to order 10 heavy cases of water just go for it. Finally, last month, I signed up for Amazon Prime. This is the new service you pay Amazon like $80 a year and get free two-day shipping on everything you buy. At first I thought this didn’t make a lot of sense. Actually now I think this is a great program, because I buy a lot of things on Amazon and I don’t know about you, but I at least often fall into the trap of buying extra items to bring my shopping cart total over $25 to get the “freeâ€? shipping. A lot of these extra items I’d buy just get the “freeâ€? shipping I really don’t need to buy at that time so it’s a waste of money and then anyway the free shipping usually takes a week or more to get to me which is very frustrating.