I think it’s very important that we still have brick and mortar stores. Especially the smaller and more independent ones. It’s not a good world to live in when our goods distribution is handled by one or two insanely large megacorps. And online access can be revoked at the whim of the parent company. It’s super convenient when Amazon has anything I want to buy (or a knock off :/ ) and I can click a button and in a few days it arrives, but it really feels bad to using that. I know amazon employees are treated like dirt. I know it’s terrible for the environment for me to having items individually shipped to my house. And I don’t get to go out and laugh or joke with the employees of the shops. And it does nothing for the economy of the place I live.
I really don’t think Bookstores are a waste of space.
For the past few years I lived out in the suburbs where buying anything meant either driving around and doing a whole thing or ordering something online and getting it a day or two later. I ordered everything.
Now I’m back to living downtown in a small city, and I’ve literally used Amazon only once in the past three months, to buy something that isn’t available locally. It’s much nicer.
I burn a lot of gas checking local stores before I’ll break-down and buy what I need from Amazon.
My wife jokes that its a delaying tactic and I waste the energy I would otherwise use getting stuff done, and she’s not entirely wrong, but still, if I find the thing and run out of steam, getting to continue the task tomorrow is still quicker than Amazon shipping, particularly for niche items.
I think it’s very important that we still have brick and mortar stores. Especially the smaller and more independent ones. It’s not a good world to live in when our goods distribution is handled by one or two insanely large megacorps. And online access can be revoked at the whim of the parent company. It’s super convenient when Amazon has anything I want to buy (or a knock off :/ ) and I can click a button and in a few days it arrives, but it really feels bad to using that. I know amazon employees are treated like dirt. I know it’s terrible for the environment for me to having items individually shipped to my house. And I don’t get to go out and laugh or joke with the employees of the shops. And it does nothing for the economy of the place I live.
I really don’t think Bookstores are a waste of space.
For the past few years I lived out in the suburbs where buying anything meant either driving around and doing a whole thing or ordering something online and getting it a day or two later. I ordered everything.
Now I’m back to living downtown in a small city, and I’ve literally used Amazon only once in the past three months, to buy something that isn’t available locally. It’s much nicer.
I burn a lot of gas checking local stores before I’ll break-down and buy what I need from Amazon.
My wife jokes that its a delaying tactic and I waste the energy I would otherwise use getting stuff done, and she’s not entirely wrong, but still, if I find the thing and run out of steam, getting to continue the task tomorrow is still quicker than Amazon shipping, particularly for niche items.