TIL that you can get much lower online prices if you use a local library computer. Another reason to hate retailers.
Lora Kelley took a trip to the New York Public Library for us and compared prices against a personal iPhone. The results? A box of Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and a pack of toilet paper were nearly 20% cheaper on the library desktop.
Aren’t you usually signed in to an account on a service where you order things? Like Amazon or instacart? I assume they don’t care if I’m at home or at the library? I’m still the same person.
Or are these people ordering their cinnamon apple Cheerios from random online retailers where they don’t maintain an account and have to put in all of their card and address details every time? And even then I assume they track you by your card and delivery address, which I assume is not the library address.
Maybe you could get a separate credit card, bill it to a PO Box, clear your cookies, go to the library to do your shopping, ship the cereal to an abandoned house or vacant lot in a bad neighborhood, and save 20% on your apple cinnamon Cheerios.