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What did we all do before Amazon existed?
This article, from my local rag, might be of interest to some people, only if to find out how dog-friendly the company is!
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This article, from my local rag, might be of interest to some people, only if to find out how dog-friendly the company is!
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I have been a member for 19 years, they tell me.
I resisted at first wanting to support my local independent record shop. But the shop was carp.
They gave up on me before I gave up on them.
So I started using Amazon and it was just great. Since then I have seen the Virgin Record Store, HMV and numerous independent stores go out of business.
I resisted at first wanting to support my local independent record shop. But the shop was carp.
They gave up on me before I gave up on them.
So I started using Amazon and it was just great. Since then I have seen the Virgin Record Store, HMV and numerous independent stores go out of business.
Same with Waterstones. I used to like going to their store. But I would see that a book I wanted was published this week, so go to their store this week, next week, the week after and it wasn’t in. Finally ordering a copy and wait another fortnight.
Amazon, you often got the book before the date it was officially out.
Amazon, you often got the book before the date it was officially out.
Most of the music I buy, Gromit, is in the form of world music CDs from charity shops (where I'll often take a chance of buying something from a band or a singer that I've never heard of), so I don't buy much music from Amazon.
However I do buy quite a lot of DVDs of French cinema from Amazon, as it's often difficult to find it elsewhere (other than my favourite DVD store which, as it's located close to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, is never short of French movies!)
I do still use Waterstone's physical stores though and it'll usually be their website (rather than Amazon's) that I look to when buying books as gifts. (That's because of the way that they make it easy to find, say, books for teenagers)
However I do buy quite a lot of DVDs of French cinema from Amazon, as it's often difficult to find it elsewhere (other than my favourite DVD store which, as it's located close to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, is never short of French movies!)
I do still use Waterstone's physical stores though and it'll usually be their website (rather than Amazon's) that I look to when buying books as gifts. (That's because of the way that they make it easy to find, say, books for teenagers)
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Buenchico - I live in the Middle Ages (seriously, for a city Hereford is v old fashioned), I hate shopping (being amongst people) and someone always needs something. For the cost of parking or the bus (and my sanity), the £7.99 is excellent value and the kids (mainly boy #1) benefit too - I think it’s excellent value (haven’t used their tv stuff yet as I got Netflix for everyone because of lockdown - another excellent value for money service, one of the few times we’ve benefited from there being lots of us).
Ooh! I see that a super-fussy fellow moderator has been removing posts here! (It was only the use of the s-word, with the letters re-arranged, by one member and my subsequent quoting from his post that seemed to have caused offence. That word's heard so often these days that, were I still teaching, I wouldn't rebuke a kid for using it. Indeed, I'd happily use it myself in front of kids these days).
I can't recall ever visiting Hereford, Sherr. (If I have done so, it would only have been when collecting a car to deliver from an industrial estate or the like, so I wouldn't have seen thre centre of it anyway). However I've always thought of it as possibly a rather sleepy little town. (Yes, I do know that it's actually a cathedral city but, with a population of just 56,000, I tend to think of it more as a 'town' than a 'city'). The official website seems to concentrate more on the history of the place than on any great element of modernity too. ( https:/
So, although I'd like to explore Hereford for myself one day, I can understand why you might prefer to use Amazon!
I can't recall ever visiting Hereford, Sherr. (If I have done so, it would only have been when collecting a car to deliver from an industrial estate or the like, so I wouldn't have seen thre centre of it anyway). However I've always thought of it as possibly a rather sleepy little town. (Yes, I do know that it's actually a cathedral city but, with a population of just 56,000, I tend to think of it more as a 'town' than a 'city'). The official website seems to concentrate more on the history of the place than on any great element of modernity too. ( https:/
So, although I'd like to explore Hereford for myself one day, I can understand why you might prefer to use Amazon!
Sherardk will know that place well, JD33. As I understand it (from her previous posts) her house is right next to the base, with the SAS choppers being a frequent sight (and sound) there.
The base is now called Stirling Lines, although that sounds more like a shipping company than an army base to me!
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The base is now called Stirling Lines, although that sounds more like a shipping company than an army base to me!
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