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That hour + car + insurance + gas has a real cost.

I genuinely despise Amazon as a company, but factually I can order something by 9pm and pick it up from my doorstep after I sleep in.

I honestly don't think either approach is particularly great for the planet or our humanity, but Prime is popular for a good reason.



I appreciate that and you're right.

My point is to highlight for the original commenter that whilst buying online is incredibly useful, has more variety and in some a number of cases is cheaper due to being able to shop around. Having a central store like a Micro center has enormous value, there's not many of them around.

For me in Australia, I certainly cannot order something at 9pm and have it at my doorstep in the morning. Nor do we have any places like Microcenter with such variety. Genuinely if I wanted to go into a store to check the size of a particular PC case, I can't do that because there aren't any around and I live in a state capital city.




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