Amazon to Start Collecting Sales Tax in California

Spurred on by fanatically loyal shoppers like Christine Dugger of Sacramento, e-commerce giant Amazon.com is doing something it spent years trying to avoid.

On Saturday, Amazon will begin collecting sales tax from California customers.

The move will erase some of the price advantage Amazon enjoys over brick-and-mortar stores. But it will allow Amazon to blanket the state with distribution centers — the better to speed orders to consumers such as Dugger.

"I get anywhere from two to four shipments a week," said Dugger, a new mom who shops Amazon exclusively for diapers, formula, sippy cups and other baby supplies.

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