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55 Percent Of Online Shoppers Start Their Product Searches On Amazon (recode.net)
Another year, another data point showing Amazon has surpassed Google as the default search engine for shopping, a report on Recode reads. Fifty-five percent of people in the U.S. now start their online shopping trips on Amazon.com, according to results from a 2,000-person survey commissioned by the e-commerce startup BloomReach. That stat marks a 25 percent increase from the same survey last year, when 44 percent of online shoppers said they turned to Amazon first. From the report: Over the same time, the percentage of shoppers who start product searches on search engines like Google dropped from 34 percent to 28 percent. The number of online shoppers who check out a retailer's website (other than Amazon) first also shrunk, from 21 percent to 16 percent.
We're not talking to going to the back of the queue, which is what I could absolutely understand. If you're at the back of the queue, your stuff would arrive somewhere between 2 and 10 days. But that's not what happens. It arrives no earlier than 6 days after ordering. They deliberately delay the delivery.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Within the last 5 years, Google Shopping changed the requirements to be listed. Number one requirement: Pay to be listed.
Who pays to be listed? Jet.com. Who is Jet? Walmart.
Amazon may be an 800lb Gorilla. Walmart? They're just f'n evil, and the sooner they die in a fire the better.