newbury
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- Joined
- Jan 8, 2009
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- Location
- From Vt, in Va, retiring to MS
- Tractor
- Kubota's - B7610, M4700
First of all we order almost EVERYTHING online. Amazon, Walmart, Lowes, HD and many smaller sellers. SWMBO (immune compromised), who used to spend hours in the Malls and at Walmart Pre-Covid hasn't been into a store since 2019.But not necessarily all that much slower. Seems to depend on what you order, I get the impression that different items are stored in different warehouses, and they'll consolidate the order when they have all (or most) of it, then ship. If everything's all in the same warehouse, the orders seem to ship within a couple days. I can live with that. I wish Rock Auto would do that...seems whenever I order multiple items, they're all from different warehouses and I have to pay for shipping separately on both.
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Amazon (about 400 orders since 2021) and Walmart (probably about the same # of orders) ship from WHEREVER they may have the "stuff". And frequently if we order multiples (say 4 bags of flour) it will come from different warehouses. But since we don't pay shipping we don't care.
I used to dislike ordering some things online because of the pain of the return, but now they've made it painless for the most part.
And when we are in the suburbs of Alexandria, Va we often get Amazon Prime deliveries within hours of ordering.