Despite trying to avoid it I end up using Amazon occasionally, for maybe 10% of my non-recurring purchases. Small electronics, accessories, and dietary supplements mostly. The convenience of pick-up lockers is hard to beat, and not all delivery companies offer it.

Just a bit. I live in Slovakia and we don't have Amazon. However, I sometimes use UK Amazon to import DVDs. But BluRays are usually cheap too. Especially if you get them used.

I really hate to admit it, but I do use amazon quite a bit. It's not "like me" to use a company or service I despise, despite the truth of "no ethical consumption under capitalism," some businesses are just so evil that I feel it is wrong to support them in any way, even at the cost of convenience.

Here's the situation though. I rely on foodstamp benefits to be able to afford food. Amazon allows me to buy food in bulk online with my ebt card. I also have a disability that makes it prohibitively difficult to go to the grocery store as often as I would need to, and bulk buying online also stretches the benefits I get much further than regular grocery visits. Walmart and Target also now allow ebt cards for online food shopping, but they didn't used to, and they are evil as well!

I rationalize using amazon by telling myself that since mostly the only thing I get from them is food via ebt card, then it's really just money going straight from my state government to amazon, and my state government (just like most others) gives amazon free money anyway, so I may as well get something out of their capitalist sweetheart deal too.

I do my best not to feed money unnecessarily into Amazon, because they're well on their way into abusing their near-monopoly advantage.

I can't change how the world treats a company that shrugs off news of their employees peeing in bottles, and doesn't seem to care about heat exhaustion in their own staff. But I can control how I react to that news.

I use separate dedicated online retailers for groceries, hardware, and toys. I generally get free or very low cost delivery, directly to my door, within a week. My delivery timing is actually more reliable than it was with Amazon, back when I still ordered a few things from them, after they started enshitifying.

I'm generally always using a retailer who has a presence in my city, so if I need to return something, I just return it at the store.

The quality of the return desk experience is usually what determines which specific retailer I buy from, for each category.

(Which is ironic because I almost never need to return anything. I'm shockingly good at fixing stuff, so if I get something mildly broken, I just fix it and use it. But I really hate it if it's a hassle on the rare day that I do.)

A fair bit, yeah. I usually buy my motorcycle tires through Amazon, because they're almost always significantly less expensive than better retailers like Revzilla, Dennis Kirk, and so on. My last set of tires was about $100 cheaper after shipping. When I was shopping for shoes (Vibram FiveFingers), Amazon had the widest selection in my size, including prior model years.

But given a real option, I'll usually prefer to shop pretty much anywhere else.

I like to buy local but when the people in the local stores don’t care or even say hello to me and I have driven there to specifically shop local with them, then I think about saving gas and shopping Amazon with no sales clerk smart attitude.