If they still comingle inventory, you dont know which seller is actually supplying the product you receive. This has been problematic in the past.

Yeah I've seen a lot of suspect merchandise sold by amazon too. Meaning just poor quality stuff with incredibly high star ratings. Wal mart they tend to go through major distributors. For now anyway.

yeah that's true, and they do commingle, and it's a big problem.

but it does at least let you filter out all the randomly-generated "OODIXY" random generated chinese crap, at least you'll be looking at real items from real brands for the most part.

Although even then, there are some random chinese brands that are sold+shipped by Amazon...

Walmart-only items does okay.

I recently bought a new personal hygiene item. Many reviews on Amazon indicated that the item had been used, in two cases, with photos of pubic hair. I noped my way ought, and paid a few bucks more for the same item from Walmart.

I'm mostly switching to Walmart, Instacart, and Aliexpress.

I'm not sure what's wrong at Amazon, but something's very, very wrong.