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
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@noiob my favorite is how every regional site has a different feature set
amazon.com, amazon.de, amazon.co.jp, and amazon.se all behave a bit differently in different parts
@ChlorideCull the codebase must be a mess
@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
@onfy also the biggest problem with Amazon is that their search sucks and everything is flooded with irrelevant crap, which is a problem most other vendors don't havr
@noiob Hmm, I don't think Walmart or Best Buy are in Germany so I guess you wouldn't know about their crap problem.
Though I find many people go to Amazon because it's the only place they can find literal crap.
@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.
@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 it keeps automatically changing mine and it's so annoying
@MochiWaifu what, you don't magst es nicht, constantly changing languages? Pech gehabt
@noiob *bites u*
@MochiWaifu no! bad pupy!
tbh it's wild how bad amazon's website can be because they're a quasi-monopoly