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No. I know a lot of people upset with Amazon in large part because they have devastated Main Street. Convenience is not the only human value worthy of consideration. I do use them sometimes, but even then, for some products it's a bad experience because you get fakes.


How much has Amazon really decimated "Main Street?"

Wasn't it already decimated by the big box retailers and Wal-Mart?


"Your Honor, Main Street was already bleeding out from Sam Walton's knife attack when Amazon ran over it with a car" is not a wonderful defense.


Main street was already on life support long before Sam Walton got involved. High prices is not a good business model for commodity items people but often. Any one of them could have lowered prices to something reasonable and stopped my parents monthly drive to the big city malls for the basics.




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