Shopping Sucks Now
When I was living in the PNW and realized I direly needed gloves, I just hit up a few of the department stores downtown until I found some that met my criteria. Which are probably similar to those of this author, I wanted some that looked cute, had a conductive patch on the finger so I could use my phone without taking them off, would fit on my long hands with long fingernails, and weren’t super expensive gloves designed for arctic expeditions. I could see them in person and make choices based on how their build quality felt.<p>I think my total time, including the bus rides downtown and back (even though I was probably doing other things downtown on that trip like “working”), was probably less than she spent opening ten thousand different tabs in her search for The Perfect Glove.<p>And then in a couple years I had to do it again because I could only find one of the gloves when it started to be too cold for bare hands again. It ain’t <i>worth</i> investing a ton of time into picking gloves or umbrellas or other things that tend to get lost or separated.<p>Shopping for physical goods <i>on the Internet</i> sucks.