@49b232fb I turned to Argos in the pandemic for household items, and they were pretty good. But I did read recently that they did something shitty - I can't remember what, but I guess the big businesses always do something shitty. Probably still better than Amazon.

B and Q are also good for gardening, DIY and some homewards.

Books are easy. Almost any small bookstore can order you things, and Smashwords has ebooks.

I've also seen it suggested to use Amazon as a search engine> 

 @49b232fb >you can find the product and/or seller you want that way, and then search for the product or seller with a search engine to buy from directly for the seller and/or somewhere better.

For search engines, I recently started using Start Page, and it has made it so much easier to find shops and businesses that have what I want and not what Google has been paid to sell me.