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Same in Spain. I don't even have an Amazon account, btw.
Here in Italy practically no one is as quick as Amazon tho
So? What's the deal in waiting a couple of days?
Exactly. I convinced my wife that we really don't need everything to arrive in 0-2 days, it's totally fine if things take 3-5 days. So I cancelled our Prime sub, and it's been absolutely fine. In fact, we spend a bit less due to that minimum order size. We still usually get things in 2-3 days if we go w/ Amazon (we're right next to a hub), but we've been buying from more retailers now that we plan for longer delivery times.
Sometimes I need stuff faster.
And usually it's more than a couple of days. For example I always order PC parts from other stores, and some of them take over two weeks to deliver. Of course that's not an urgent purchase... Usually.
Let me guess, the EU actually put laws in place to ”remediate that problem” like a ”functioning government”.
I'm also in Spain, and only use Amazon for things i genuinely cannot find elsewhere, which happens to be like once a year