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Amazon is better than brick and mortar because Amazon fails to deliver after a week, but a brick and mortar store fulfilled in 15 minutes?

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15 minutes of synchronous time waiting at the store versus 1 week of asynchronous time while you live your life though.

For most random things, getting there and back aside, find the item in a huge store is a pain in the ass. On amazon, it's literally a 10s search query.

Also, for more common items such as shampoo or litter, grocery stores have literally 30 different types of them, which can make it hard to choose. By having ratings, reviews, information and q&a right there, it makes choosing the right product much easier.

>>15 minutes of synchronous time waiting at the store versus

Uhh, what about traveling to and from the store? Or have you invented teleportation?

And on top of that, what happens when the bricks and mortar store goes out of business and you have nowhere to go when Amazon is not sending it to you and "need it urgently".

Sometimes I shop at the local BestBuy to delay that inevitable day when Amazon is the only thing available.

Amazon Prime Now, while not available everywhere, has worked fairly well for me, and maybe soon we'll have drone deliveries too.

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