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Going to Best Buy in my experience means paying more for the same product. It's also a 40-minute round trip, minimum. It's 30 minutes if I go to Target, or Barnes and Noble, and similar times for most other stores I'd go to.

If I could walk to a store to get most of the stuff I'd otherwise get from Amazon, I'd consider it more often. But driving 20 minutes or more to pick up something small is not a good use of my time. It's not enjoyable. It's not a meaningful amount of exercise to walk through a store. And frankly driving for a small item is not very earth friendly. I suspect that it's better for the environment to have UPS add another package to their truck than it is for another car to drive to the store and back, even if you consider the environmental cost of the box.




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