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Old 08-18-2023, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Bwanajim View Post
Yes, Amazon is great and I use it, but try not to. They have destroyed so many businesses and peoples livelihoods. What happens when there are no more small business bor shopping centers and Amazon controls the market an charges what they want.?.
History only goes forward. Mark Twain said something like we do not make any progress because we lose what was. Retail. Prices have dropped quite a bit for the consumer. List price? No one pays list price anymore. They used to. We are all on our computers. I remember riding my bike to the library. Using the dewie decimal system to find where the book was and then discovering someone had it out or whatever. Pocketbooks were ten cents. Hardcover books like $5.00.