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Average people like me, who visit a bookstore once in six months or so tend to stock up on books. Never had a bookstore bar me from entering because I bought too many books. On the contrary, they asked me if they could help out by delivering them to my house for free...

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To be completely fair if you use a new card for every book it will rise some eyebrows

Yeah, the human being behind the counter will probably ask "why the hell are you ringing up each book on a new credit card," to which the OP would presumably answer "I'm buying books for work and this is how they make me do expense reports," and both would continue to go about their day. Perhaps part of the OP's point is that the efficiency gains of Amazon over B&M retailers (from the POV of the company owners and investors, at least) come at a very real cost to the customer experience.

When I was younger, in my teens and early 20s, carding was a thing. Good old stolen credit cards used in person at retail. This was in the late 80s, before the Internet became A Thing. If you had walked into a store and started swiping multiple cards, they'd most likely have called the cops.

Even if they all had the same name?

This reminds me of the back and forth discussion on EVs vs ICEVs. Yes, if your use case requires you to go to a remote location to buy the product, your purchase pattern is going to reflect that. You refuel your car once a week or so, I refuel every single night. You go buy multiple books at a time at a bookstore, I buy them on the fly at the moment I want them.

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