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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1169" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/too-many-options/590185/" target="_blank"><strong>There Is Too Much Stuff - The Atlantic</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The human brain can’t contend with the vastness of online shopping. </strong></p><p></p><p>In theory, Amazon is a site meant to serve the needs of humans. The mega-retailer’s boundless inventory gives people easy access to household supplies and other everyday products that are rarely fun to shop for. Most people probably aren’t eager to buy clothes hangers, for instance. They just want to have hangers when they need them.</p><p></p><p>But when you type <em>hangers</em> into Amazon’s search box, the mega-retailer delivers “over 200,000” options. On the first page of results, half are nearly identical velvet hangers, and most of the rest are nearly identical plastic. They don’t vary much by price, and almost all of the listings in the first few pages of results have hundreds or thousands of reviews that average out to ratings between four and five stars. Even if you have very specific hanger needs and preferences, there’s no obvious choice. There are just choices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1169, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/too-many-options/590185/'][B]There Is Too Much Stuff - The Atlantic[/B][/URL] [B]The human brain can’t contend with the vastness of online shopping. [/B] In theory, Amazon is a site meant to serve the needs of humans. The mega-retailer’s boundless inventory gives people easy access to household supplies and other everyday products that are rarely fun to shop for. Most people probably aren’t eager to buy clothes hangers, for instance. They just want to have hangers when they need them. But when you type [I]hangers[/I] into Amazon’s search box, the mega-retailer delivers “over 200,000” options. On the first page of results, half are nearly identical velvet hangers, and most of the rest are nearly identical plastic. They don’t vary much by price, and almost all of the listings in the first few pages of results have hundreds or thousands of reviews that average out to ratings between four and five stars. Even if you have very specific hanger needs and preferences, there’s no obvious choice. There are just choices. [/QUOTE]
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