I would love if I could just walk to a store nearby, unfortunately it’s going to take at minimum 45 minutes of my time to go and buy anything in person.

It just makes sense to buy online unless I need that thing this very instant. I don’t have to spend any more of my free time than the 5 seconds to order something, and can instead get on whatever needs to get done around the house.

Either way, an employee is still getting paid to oversee the purchase of the item (cashier vs delivery driver), and a vehicle is still being driven (a car vs a delivery truck, the delivery truck is probably more eco friendly due to servicing multiple people vs my car servicing just me, as well as skipping the warehouse to store step in a lot of cases. Although still bad, I’d prefer just walking if I had any stores round me. I do have a local hardware store at least, so there’s that)

It’s all relative to the individual’s circumstance, there are of course instances where I need something the same day, and so try and figure out which store I need to go to to get it now. And then they’re out of stock and I go elsewhere.

From my viewpoint, it simply makes sense, from others’ it might not.