I've had it in the back of my mind for months that I need to get away from Amazon for the reasons you've listed. How have your shopping habits changed since ditching Amazon? Did you go back to more conventional stores or are there any online marketplaces that you've found to fill some (obviously nowhere near all) of the Amazon-sized hole?
Instead of window shopping in stores and buying on Amazon, I now window shop on Amazon (all prospective purchases go into the shopping cart to monitor prices), and then I bundle my purchases every 2-3 weeks at brick and mortar stores. ALL of our baby purchases (diapers, wipes, etc) have been switched to Target.com. I don't even really miss Prime (my packages were already not sticking to within 1-2 day delivery deadlines, so not much loss there). I also don't impulse shop as much, and plan my purchases out, which is nothing but beneficial to my wallet.
It's not perfect, but if principles were easy everyone would do it.
Is Target.com any better? My understanding is that almost every major online store outsources its fulfillment centers, and Amazon's are basically par for the course.
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