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Needed a new winter coat. There's a Macys nearby and my wife had a 25% off coupon.
Saw 2 great Tommy Hilfiger jackets on sale for 60% off! Regular price $250 and $225. Score. I can't decide, and my wife likes them both so she says she'll buy me the other. I love my wife. Anyhow... They tell us they can't take the 25% off because the jackets were already discounted. 60% off is still a great deal! We bought them.
Without getting into the math, cuz math is hard - I decided this time to research what I bought. Price on Amazon, without any sale - was cheaper than Macy's sale price!
I just re-orderd both jackets on Amazon for $40 less! Macys is getting theirs back tomorrow.
This kind of crap really gets to me for some reason. BS advertising/marketing. It should be against the law. I'm done with Macys.
I always wondered about their jewelry that they practically give away for free. 75% off THIS FRIDAY only, that they'll do for you on Tuesday cuz they like you, and still give you 25% off that price if you get one of their credit cards. I fell for that one last year and paid $60 for something for my wife that probably would have cost $40 on Amazon if I were able to find it there.
Amazon will take over the world at some point. No joke. There will be hardly any brick and mortar stores left eventually. I was actually considering leaving my job of 18 years to see if I could get in with Amazon by me. It's a plain and stone cold truth.
Naaah, Amazon will only dominate through the molecular deconstructor transport era. Once a molecular construction engine becomes a reality and we can simply dump our waste into a hopper and dial up dinner or a new jazz bass, Amazon will go the way of the passenger pigeon.
Amazon is expanding their brick and mortar presence.
Once they find a way to conquer Walmart, that'll be about it.
I rarely go to physical stores anymore. Just Costco and the grocery store really, and we're testing out grocery deliver and curbside pickup this week.
-Mike
The local high-ish end grocer by me just started delivering for 10%. $20 is worth it to me to save the 6 miles round trip and 45-60 minutes in the store.
That's a great idea in theory.....
Huge savings on gas and your precious time....but....
We had a local market start a home delivery last year so we gave it a go.....
Van pulled up outside our house...Old guy goes to back of van and retrieves our order....Drops first bag on the ground....Picks it up without even checking that the contents were ok....
Tried to deliver the now very wet bag of groceries.....(OJ bottle had split).....
Denied dropping it even though I'd stood and watched him do it.....
All stuff sent back to store....
End of experiment....
That is totally wrong. They ave 341,000 employees. No rent or property taxes? Really, you think they work out of a spare bedroom? No retails do product investment. That is for manufacturers. As to donations, they have the Smile program where you pick the charity and they donate .5% of the purchase price the the charity you designate.
Good to know...I am very happy to hear it
Just sad that our landscape is changing...as I like going out shopping.....but I am rapidly becoming a Dinosaur
The intoxicating effects of Amazon.
I didn't care so much at first living down where we do, but Amazon is now affecting the quality of my life too. To be fair, not just Amazon, other companies are contributing. But I think they are the catalyst.
I find myself being hypocritical at times. Here I am crying about the negative effects from Amazon in a region, yet out of the other side of my mouth I'll be raving about the fast shipping and how I'll be a Prime member for life.
-Mike
I didn't care so much at first living down where we do, but Amazon is now affecting the quality of my life too. To be fair, not just Amazon, other companies are contributing. But I think they are the catalyst.
I find myself being hypocritical at times. Here I am crying about the negative effects from Amazon in a region, yet out of the other side of my mouth I'll be raving about the fast shipping and how I'll be a Prime member for life.
-Mike
I hear ya, Mike. I don't know how much longer I'm gonna afford to be able to live in this city since all the highly paid tech employees (not just Amazon) are driving up the rents so fast, and even worse ... changing each neighborhoods demographic from unique and affordable, to one big gentrified & homogenized zone that has no place for the people that keep it interesting and vibrant.
Capitol Hill is pretty much dead to me since the expensive condos exploded upward on almost every block, and a new migrated workforce of largely younger homophobic frat boy tech worker types all but drove out the tolerant rainbow bohemian vibe of that long standing neighborhood of refuge for the creative & 'different' types.
Even if I was to 'can't beat em, join em' get a job there ... Im not qualified to do much for them besides work in a warehouse for any unlivable wage, or drive for their 'Flex' fleet using my phone, car, and gas (while burning most of it in stop and go traffic.)
OK, so it wasn't just me.
We took some friends from Ohio around Seattle a couple months ago. Up to Capital Hill we went, and I let them know it's a bit quirky and different from downtown.
While I am not homosexual, I did enjoy that bohemian vibe you referred to.
We came up Pike, and I could hardly believe what all had changed in the year or so since we had been up there. It didn't live up to what I had prepared them for.
Sure, some of it is still the same, but dang man was it different. Not good different.
That there is an example of the changes Amazon will bring to it's next city that many residents will come to dislike.
-Mike
