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I am an online shopping beast. I make a purchase online at least three days out of seven. I use it for everyday items I know I will need soon, or simply because I saw an awesome sale and could not pass it up. I have family and friends far away; I can send birthday and Christmas gifts straight to their door without leaving my house. There is a learning curve to online shopping that everyone must learn if they do not want to get taken advantage of. The greatness of the world we live in today is I can go to any store, anywhere in the world, with just a click of my mouse.
Everyone has their favorite stores to shop in, and I am no different. My go-to website for finding everything I want or need is Amazon.com. It offers prime membership with free two-day shipping and no tax on nearly every purchase. They also have a hassle free return policy for anything from broken items of high value to the tiniest thingamajig I thought looked great online but was not what I expected once I received it. For every great store, there is an equal and opposite incompetent one, that online store is called Walmart.com. …show more content…

Walmart, as well as Amazon, offer a huge variety of items at incredibly low prices. Because shopping online has unlimited space, each store can offer an abundance of merchandise without having to stuff it into one store. Both of these online stores offer daily specials on a multitude of items, though to be honest, most of the deals are not items I would ever purchase. Both stores have brick-and-mortar retail store locations around the globe for a shopper with immediate needs. Did it ever click that they both offer their own online movie hubs? Walmart offers Vudu while Amazon has Amazon Video. They both offer groceries straight to your door as

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