somehow I managed to have amazon.com set to German but amazon.de set to English
not gonna change it because a) it's really annoying to do anything on those sites and b) they send me an email every time I accidentally change it
tbh it's wild how bad amazon's website can be because they're a quasi-monopoly
@noiob I think my favourite part is how most stores' sites are even worse, so even without a monopoly there'd be little motivation to improve.
@onfy I mean, small stores can just use Shopify or sth like that, in my experience it works pretty well
@noiob There's actually a store here that uses Shopify but they fucked it up a bunch so it works a good deal worse. But yeah many use Shopify now and it's great. And some don't.
@onfy Walmart tried to open physical locations in Germany but didn't adapt to the culture (e.g. we don't have greeters and bag our own groceries) and people didn't like it at all, I think that made them stop trying
@noiob Here unfortunately they dominate. People only shop based on price, and they wiped out most of our other stores.
@onfy y'all don't have Aldi?
@onfy oh, right, Canada
@noiob I literally said No Frills and Walmart, how much more Canadian do you want, eh?
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@noiob Oh yeah. Aldi is in the US but not here. I've heard about their American operations, but not necessarily for good reasons. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trader-joe-s-loses-fight-with-vancouver-s-pirate-joe-s-1.1912400
@noiob Similar to our No Frills it sounds like, just they're focused on food. Walmart's been 'fancy and cheap' as long as I remember.