I feel like just in the past few months they've all tanked in usability. Amazon is almost physically painful to navigate now... They used to be the "gold standard" in interactivity with how everything kinda got you where you wanted to go (I know it's been a long road, but it's literally all AI slop now and I can't even scroll without something becoming a popup).

Lowe's and Home Depot are just as bad. Useless search, constantly shifting UI. AI generated photos.

Fuck it. I'm only shopping at McMaster Carr from now on. I don't need a fancy magnetic knife rack from a 6 letter lifestyle company that's been around as long as a fruit fly. I'm getting an 18in Screw Mount Magnetic Tool Holder with 1 1/8in depth that's RoHS 3 compliant and comes with free CAD models.

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And it's not just the website that has gotten worse. Logistics are worse, don't think the deliveries have ever been slower than now, customer service is worse.

Unfortunately other stores are even worse. I've noticed some stores have one quick search index for suggestions while typing in the search bar and one more complex search showing the actual results and the suggestions in the search bar are consistently closer to what I'm looking for than the top 30 actual search results.

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