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Originally Posted by Paul
Amazon isnt really free. You pay £95 a year for prime, plus prices are generally a little higher to account for the "free" delivery.
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But there are other benefits of prime than just free delivery. I'm watching Murray right now...
What I usually do when looking around is look at the delivery cost as well as the service you get - the tracking with amazon is good as well, you get a (usually accurate) time slot for delivery and notification when it's near, which not all couriers do well.
Plus the same-day service you can sometimes get is good - i ordered a wifi extender yesterday and got it about 8pm when i'd only ordered midway through the morning.
Also, some places are more than amazon even with delivery paid for not included already. It pays to shop around.
As for wilko, I guess the advantage a physical store does have is that one can walk in & out with the items, presuming they have them in stock at that store, and this means also that they need the overheads of a store to work, which pushes the prices up - if you don't need it straight away and can wait for someone else to deliver it next day then that should be cheaper to reflect that. In that case, they're probably now more directly competing against places like B&M, The Range etc which don't seem to have been around more, and generally seem to be better value. Wilko haven't adapted to be overall better generally than somewhere like B&M nor specialised like somewhere like B&Q (But then Hilco still own Homebase) and in my eyes don't appear to have claimed a niche which has probably set them back a bit.