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And buy from where? Retailers these days, insofar as they exist at all, have ridiculously limited inventory. If I want something that's even slightly uncommon, the only place I can find it is online, and since there's no telling whether any given website will steal from me, welp, Amazon it is.
You can still buy from Amazon as needed without Prime. The free shipping is still usually relatively fast, and they'll give you a free or heavily discounted Prime trial fairly often. I try to avoid buying stuff on Amazon these days, but a lot of things simply aren't available elsewhere or would be significantly more difficult to acquire. I haven't had a steady Prime sub in at least a couple years, but they end up offering me a trial probably every few months. Hell, they gave me a full month for free a week ago (probably to try to drive up Prime Day sales).
This. Trying to find anything in a brick and mortar store in the last decade has been such a godawful experience that I don't feel the least bit sorry for them. Groceries are largely delivered (not using Instacart, but the store's own delivery or pickup service), tech stuff is all aliexpress or amazon, clothing I still largely go in to buy, but don't buy very often. Appliances? Research the shit out of it online and usually order online from a local retailer with a decent website. Heck, even hardware is online through Home Depot and auto stuff is either rockauto or similar.
The amount of times I've made the effort to look in a brick and mortar and not found the thing I've needed is too high.