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I think the very best alternative to Amazon is: don't shop online at all. Support your local businesses!
Surely there's shops in your area where you can get those kinds of things -- your list doesn't have anything too exotic or difficult to obtain. Unless your tastes are out of the ordinary somehow.
Would be great, except there are almost no local businesses anymore. Everything's a franchise, in fact, a tactic that's becoming increasingly popular is for corporate stores to disguise themselves as mom and pop shops. Local shops are effectively dead. Capitalism killed it.
Frankly, this sounds kinda conspiratorial. You're not willing to step into a local shop for fear that it might not actually be a local shop?
Otherwise, there truly are more options in my area than in your area, in which case, I'm sorry to hear that.
(Edit: typo)