"Free" shipping is directly penalizing local buyers and rewarding distant buyers. Basically local commerce is paying the shipping costs of distant commerce. Why would it cost the same to ship something from China vs. in your own state? People choose not to ask these basic questions.
It seems like retailers, if they’re not going to combat online shopping with “right now” convenience by increasing inventory, should at least offer individual shipping packages no matter the cost. Cause everywhere I go they still need to order stuff in constantly, and are still only set up for bulk shipping so it even takes longer then online. And manufactures could probly offer better retailer locators on their sites to if they’d like to exist apart from Amazon.
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