If I'm being honest, the only thing stopping me from shopping at other sites is having to put my personal and payment details in yet another site for it to go stale, or fall out of my memory, or get leaked in the next big hack.

Some sites have "pay with Amazon" (more likely PayPal, but... ugh. I don't remember why, but I hate it), but I'd love to see some universal adoption of some sort of payment and shipping details lockbox. Like SSO where you can revoke access to subscribers or something.

Google shopping or duckduckgo shopping can usually find it. Or go to amazon and then search the sellers name.

What kind of stuff have you been buying that you couldn't find elsewhere (at a competitive price)?

I buy a moderate amount of my stuff online and was able to almost entirely avoid Amazon this year. The only exception was a phone display where Amazon had a LCD-variant for ~30€ while all others only had an OLED for ~90€.

Outside of NA there are.

Not sure what you are looking for but I can easily buy the same stuff on eBay or Walmart or directly from the retailer. I do a search of Amazon and then google the same product to look at different website options.

Not perfect but a lot of big box stores offer free shipping. I usually will check Walmart, Best Buy, Target B&H and Google shopping. I'm pretty sure they all offer free shipping after $35. Chewy for animal stuff is really good too. Also check the manufacturer, I recently bought a gift that way and it was cheaper and had more selection options than dumb Amazon.

Amazon is convenient and two day shipping rules

I'm generally fine with Amazon. The main things I'd like to see changed:

• Their determined nagging to subscribe to Amazon Prime. I don't have a good fix there.

• Perishable food. Walmart.com does a better job here IME, uses their existing infrastructure and delivery network to provide perishables in a tight time window.

• Limited product classification for searches. For electronics, Newegg does a better job of having a database with many aspects of products being searchable. In general, specialty rather than general-purpose stores seem to do a better job on this.

• Limited selection. Amazon is pretty darn good on this, but for some really esoteric stuff, Google Shopping can win, since it'll index the inventory of many retailers. If I can't find something on Amazon, that's my next stop. It can also search for numeric ranges ("3..25") as I recall, which can be useful for some items.

If you want an alternative for some reason, OP, you probably want to list what it is that you'd like done differently, as that kinda determines what alternatives make sense.