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Costco/Nordstroms/Apple/Lululemon/etc.

Even BestBuy/Target/Walmart/Home Depot/Lowes/Staples/REI/etc to an extent, if the item is sold by them. Stores with physical inventory and presence that have to worry about rates of return will probably do more due diligence than an online marketplace.




With inventory mixing, in service of "Fulfilled by Amazon" that is what Amazon used to have, and lost.


Yes, but it’s been known Amazon has been commingling inventory for 10+ years.

It’s just an AliExpress with a better return policy, which is worth something when I need something cheap to solve a niche problem.

But my serious purchases all happen elsewhere.




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