I needed this light sage color to finish an afghan and could no longer find it at any of my local stores.  I had to finish the project by a certain date so went to Amazon.com and there it was.  Good price and reasonable shipping charge.  If I could have found it locally, of course, I wouldn't have had to pay for shipping at all, but when you absolutely have to have something, it's nice to be able to find it.  It arrived well before the date estimated by the vendor too.