Recently, I bought a new pair of headphones because my old pair was beginning to have problems. Out of just pure convenience, I went on to Amazon.com and began my browsing for my new pair there. Yet, there is a Best Buy about a mile down the street from me and could have done the same thing. The difference with Amazon.com and Best Buy is I dont have to leave my home and begin browsing within seconds. If I were to go Best Buy, it would take me 5-7 minutes to arrive at the store for me to start browsing and if my plan is to look at the stuff they got to go home to think about it, I would have spent 10-14 minutes of my time traveling.
I did buy new pair of headphones on Amazon.com without even thinking about going to Best Buy. Not picking on Best Buy, but just pointing out how irrelevent brick and mortar stores are to me, compared to the internet. The only thing I would never buy over the internet is groceries or shoes. Soon I have a nephew's birthday party coming up in a couple of months and the first place I go to browse for his gifts is at Amazon.com.
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