@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 well, Aldi is (probably) still king here, and their draw used to be "our stores are just utilitarian, we don't do advertising, and therefore our products are cheaper" but they've slowly moved to have slightly nicer stores, more advertising and brand-name products

@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.