Commentary: Isn’t the internet supposed to make holiday shopping easier? - Daily Breeze

I utilized to deliberation of myself arsenic a “can do” person. Give maine a task and I’ll get close astatine it and get it done.

But things person changed.

Well, I’ve changed immoderate and the satellite has changed a lot.

Take the acquisition of See’s candy, a staple successful our location for Christmas.

I utilized to thrust determination database successful hand, basal successful enactment for an hour, past look with a bully achromatic container afloat of goodies. But this twelvemonth I’m not driving, truthful I picked up my phone.

I gave my bid to the pistillate who answered, but she wouldn’t fto maine springiness her my card. I had to beryllium transferred to different person. That idiosyncratic was benignant of slow. When I got backmost to my bid lady, she said my paper hadn’t travel through. I gave up and took to the internet.

It should person been simple, shouldn’t it?

Two nuts and chews and 1 brushed centers for the cleaning woman who has mendacious teeth. But I couldn’t decorativeness my transaction online either. Cursing, I recovered a thrust to See’s successful Torrance, got my worldly and sped home.

The net is expected to fto you bash each your buying from your surviving room. It’s a bully thought if it works.

So, past I needed a crockery vessel for a grandson who has a caller condominium successful Ocean Park.

In the aged days, a travel to our section buying halfway would person fixed maine a prime of woody bowls astatine Williams Sonoma oregon the Pottery Barn. Alas, our halfway has been dwindling and neither of those stores are inactive there. So backmost to the internet.

I recovered a beauteous acacia crockery bowl. But could I bargain it? No, I couldn’t get to the checkout site. They kept wanting to amusement maine much things. I tried and tried but failed.

One clip I started astatine Williams Sonoma and past they said I was buying astatine Kohls. How does this happen?

I yet bought a vessel I saw erstwhile I got a thrust to World Market, but it’s not arsenic bully arsenic the ones online. I deliberation I’ll hold until 1 of the machine savvy radical successful my household is disposable to assistance me.

These days it feels arsenic if that online satellite thinks otherwise than I do.

My latest occupation is needing to rent 2 heaters for an outdoor dinner. I cognize they exist. There were immoderate radical playing euphony successful our courtyard a fewer weeks agone and they had rented heaters. But I ne'er thought to inquire them what fig to call.

In the aged days we’d usage the yellowish pages to find a rental company.  But the net has made each different ways of buying obsolete — and yet I can’t negociate to get thing I want.

I tried searching for “outdoor heater rental” and thing came up. I yet enactment my query connected Nextdoor and got immoderate names of websites, but inactive can’t navigate them to my satisfaction.

My younger household returns from a travel Monday and hopefully tin assistance me.

The bottommost enactment is I hatred feeling similar a blooming idiot. Which I bash excessively often these days.

I privation to instrumentality to a clip erstwhile I could execute a task successfully without anyone’s help. Maybe what I privation is to crook backmost the clock. For maine oregon for the world?

Whatever works is my answer.

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