Hated going Christmas shopping in the stores. No parking, crowded, having to go to multiple stores looking for things, lines. If you wanted something from a store or other catalog you’d have had to order it several weeks in advance due to shipping and handling times. You were limited to what the stores had generally because there really wasn’t any other way.
People today who didn’t experience the non-online life don’t have a clue how much faster it is to buy things now. I won’t say the variety is a whole lot better, but access to the existing inventory is way better.
I would say we’re no happier with the increased accessibility to “ stuff “. Sure there’s a threshold between abject poverty/starvation and Bezos’ daily plastic Chinese landfill filler delivery, but having the world at our fingertips may have done more harm than good.
Hated going Christmas shopping in the stores. No parking, crowded, having to go to multiple stores looking for things, lines. If you wanted something from a store or other catalog you’d have had to order it several weeks in advance due to shipping and handling times. You were limited to what the stores had generally because there really wasn’t any other way.
People today who didn’t experience the non-online life don’t have a clue how much faster it is to buy things now. I won’t say the variety is a whole lot better, but access to the existing inventory is way better.
I would say we’re no happier with the increased accessibility to “ stuff “. Sure there’s a threshold between abject poverty/starvation and Bezos’ daily plastic Chinese landfill filler delivery, but having the world at our fingertips may have done more harm than good.
Remember “allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery”? Because that was the norm back on the day.
Absolutely.