Like the other comments said, it’s prob on it’s way to becoming it’s own amazon like figure there, thats how they start out
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realitista@lemmus.org 1 day ago
We have this in Czechia. Search engines that aggregate many small web shops together into a single search. Then you can go to whichever shop has the best deal or whatever. It’s what we use locally instead of Amazon, and I always feel much better giving my money directly to the small specialty shops.
dil@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
realitista@lemmus.org 10 hours ago
There are actually 2. One is being more blatant about this and enshittifying. The other one is trying ads/subscription. I use the second.
LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
We had this in Greece and it was great. Then you could order through the aggregator itself. Then it got its own delivery service that shops could use (still better than all other delivery companies). Then shops were added that don’t have their own site nor a physical shop. Now it’s trying to expand to other countries and there is a subscription that gives you lower delivery fees. It’s still good and most people buy stuff from there but it’s clear it’s trying to become Amazon and I’m afraid most similar centralized services will go this way sooner or later.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
This is kinda the same process amazon itself went through back in the day