"Why?"

"We've recreated a dam disaster. The entire lab is flooded. The guys are all in kayaks. Gonna have to get Grandma off the roof."

Also, if you're on a business network or a work VPN, or any of a few other situations, they could be assuming the location of your gateway to the Internet (so not a router in your house). One of my former offices in Georgia was periodically "in Texas".

I'm not saying any of this suckness is OK. Just providing some of the failure modes.

It ought to be better

Dunno where your jurisdictional borders are, but you might be closer to another ZIP Code's boundary than you are to Whole Foods or Lowe's.

The culprit for your "wrong store" problem might be 'ZIP code search', vs 'geocoded address search'.

The largest ZIP code in the US is bigger than Maryland, and 'center of nearest ZIP code' can be a blunt instrument.

Hard to say if that kind of failure is poor shop site design, bad database design, or a fallback from refusing to provide your location (maybe a long time ago and remembered/persisted).

Could easily be something else, of course. Amazon certainly is one of the most mature shippers re: GIS. Whole Foods? Who can say?

YOU SIMPLY DON'T UNDERSTAND!

We're ONLY trying to force this shit on your face that you don't want on your face! It BELONGS on your face, otherwise you're not ENJOYING it!

BTW, just TRY aspic! You'll like it! No, really - not like last time!

But they're getting essentially random and unvetted information from a chat bot. That ought to be illegal.

Something only a crazy person would do...

This is, idea-wise a Raspberry Pi 400 (and yes, a VIC-20, A C64, a TRS-80, a TI-99/44, an Atari 800XL, an Amiga 1200...).

What I wanna know is whether HP brings back B. Dalton and Egghead so you can get programs on cassette tape!

If you mean individual emails on servers all over the world, sure. Guys looking without a warrant can just go fish. Everyplace. In the world.

If you mean my own mail server (which I run), nope.

Don't want my email corpus sitting on someone else's server. Do not want IMAP.

...Trump said they did.

And the Decabet!

It's not Doc Ock?

(ht B. Kliban for that title)

Y'know, it's slop. It's not terribly creative. But at least it beats the GD Muppets. Are the Muppets better? Really?

Sure, flame-on. I got my asbestos nightie on.

Greenlandic Scrabble most be treacherous!

Providing all the needed extra "Q"s.