rant - Time to drop Amazon

[newbury]

Anybody ever contact Amazon about deliveries not on time? Read the top post in the link below...
Hold Amazon Prime to their 2-Day shipping guarantee : Frugal

Well I contacted them and all I got was "sorry, that's UPS's problem".

That doesn't always work any more, I can't count how many times I've been in a local big box store, couldn't find what I wanted, asked someone working there, they had no clue, so standing right there I open up the Amazon app on my phone and order the thing using Prime.<snip>

I don't do hardly any shopping at B&M other than grocery stores, Walmart, and hardware. And now thankfully both Lowe's and Home Depot offer free wifi.

That's another big advantage of shopping online, you don't have to spend time walking thru a bewildering maze of aisles looking for something. Just do a search and they either have it or they don't, you know instantly.

At the big box stores there are usually a few competent employees to ask but finding them is even harder than finding the merchandise!

With the Lowes and Home depot apps they show the aisle and bay where items are supposed to be.

A problem in Northern Virginia is that I don't speak the Amharic language and we seem to have large blocks of Ethiopians in some of the hardware stores. I've resorted to pulling up the item on my Samsung Galaxy 8" note on THEIR website and pointing out the aisle and bay REPORTED so they can walk me around to where it's been moved to.

Mississippi isn't bad, they either speak Southern or Spanish.

 

[CHDinCT]

That doesn't always work any more, I can't count how many times I've been in a local big box store, couldn't find what I wanted, asked someone working there, they had no clue, so standing right there I open up the Amazon app on my phone and order the thing using Prime.

Know what you mean. I've done the same, but I now have both the Lowes and Home Depot apps loaded on my smartphone, and you can use that to search for what you're looking for, and if it's in stock, it will tell you that and what isle/shelf it's located on. Of course the HD I usually go to doesn't show shelf numbers (or I can't find them), but it gets me to the right isle and I can usually find what I'm looking for from there. Never seems to be any sales associate around when I"m there, and when I find one, they can't help me and have to page someone that usually doesn't show up. Frustrating.

Edit: Should have read to the end to see that Newbury covered the same thing, basically.

 

[randy41]

prime would be a better deal if the prime music had as much available as spotify.