As you probably heard, Amazon is coming for Ireland. It’ll come for our small shops, it’ll come for our department stores, and it’ll come for our media, our journalism, and our democracy.
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It offers convenience so it can depress wages with its warehouse workers, so it can break AnPost unions with its drivers, so its delivery drones can have more rights than women. All so Jeff Bezos can die with unspent billions for others to fight over.
I never have used Amazon as I would be buying sight unseen. Since I don't have the physical item to look at as I weigh up its quality for the price. Prefer 2 purchase local
And cousin should ever I go Ireland to see where my 4 x great granddad grew up I'll make sure to visit your Establishment.
Shop local, remind friends and family to shop local. Delete Amazon apps and bookmarks, get audiobooks, ebooks, movies and music from your local library. Show your parents and grandparents how to. https://littledeercomics.ie
Sorry, but Amazon has been in Ireland since 2022! The only new thing to happen today is that they will now have an Irish site. In other words, it will probably be https://amazon.ie instead of piggybacking off the UK site. I don't use Amazon myself but I do see a lot of Prime vans out making deliveries!
Support small businesses is my motto. Amazon is a last resort if I can’t find something specific in a brick & mortar store. I hope you all are able to put up a meaningful resistance to this.
Take it from a former Amazon customer is the US: Amazon is a cancer. It destroys communities & local businesses. It pushes cheap products over decent ones. It overcharges. You may think that the convenience & return policy & (not actually) free shipping are nice. They are not. They are fake & toxic.
Pretty much. They dump cheap products to squash the competition and then run their business like the wild, wild west by confusing consumers with their primary income - independent, side hustlers who drop ship with Amazon denying responsibility for ripoffs, bad products, and dangerous products.
I’m pretty sure America is now a cautionary tale on untaxed billionaires who wave shiny things before destroying your culture, your wages, small businesses, and clearly your democracy. Among other things, like gutting education for decades.
That’s the only happy takeaway I can have as an American living through this. I saw a lot of areas internationally headed in our direction, and watched them learn from our mistakes. Happy for them. Hope we can make it to a better situation
And it will spread like cancer, gobbling up all the great small stores, the livelihoods, the quaintness of a town. It will devour everything! Don’t let it please. 🙏🏽
Don't let it happen! It's already happened in my town in Italy. All of our shops are closed or closing except for the Chinese. We're living in a "dormitorio" which means a town for sleeping, not for working, everyone drives to other towns for work. It's the saddest thing I've ever witnessed.
Get ready, Ireland, for union-busting, low wages, opening then shuttering warehouses, killing jobs and more! Anything that puts another buck in Bezos pocket... a buck you'll never see again.
You have to stop them. Go full boycott now. It’s just time before be comes for your government. Block any politicians that back this idea and get them out of office. I mean it.
Today I ordered 2 lots of books from indies, 1 by phone and 1 in person. Last week in Ireland I went to the local shop but it was closed . I did not waver to the lure of A but went back the next day!
SF here, most of our store fronts are closed and boarded up. Our downtown is failing and they are begging people to open business there. The mall is empty! Everyone is completely reliant on Amazon. It was cool at first but now it’s hard to buy anything in person. Don’t be like us!
I said a long time ago that bezos had to much power n now he’s running with it.
Bezos needs a boycott just like Tesla. A serious one and people need to stop buying from them. It’s clear they are still.
A lot of people I know (UK) are boycotting Amazon. I cancelled my account, will be buying a Kobo and getting my comics locally and my ebooks anywhere else.
Don't give America space in our lives. They're done, we don't have to be. We can support each other.
I was late to use Amazon and banned it last autumn. My fire tablet helped convince me. Too much control. And knowing how poorly delivery staff are treated.
It’s really fucked up when 3/4 of Americans are fighting to try and save our democracy from complete and utter ruin, that you’d say that we’re done for. Absolutely fuck Amazon, Facebook, etc., but please don’t take a massive shite on the people here who are doing what we can.
We support your boycott as we in America are also boycotting Amazon. That and Target and Tesla etc. It's destroying their bottom line.
The thing is ... can you not say "they are done?" We're also fighting a war of morale over here and it's really low. We're marching but no one sees it.
You are right. We Americans fucked up and your country, Canada, Mexico, etc. need to use us as an example of what NOT to do!! Watch out for the wealthy to take over your news next. I know that evil cunt Rupert Murdoch owns the Daily Mail but you HAVE to fight with everything you’ve got
That's one of the reasons why I, as an American, bought a subscription to The Guardian. They're one of of few remaining willing to speak truth to power.
It's definitely one of the better ones. It's so hard though, even the BBC is now biased AF. I try and research topics on my own now as much as I can. I don't and can't believe everything in the papers.
Exactly. The Daily Heil is a joke to anyone who doesn't read it, but America is a great example of what happens if you vote in psycho billionnaires using disinformation and Russian bots. We all need to do our own research, or we'd end up as Maga anti vaxxers. Eww.
Honestly..at this point pressure people to boycott American businesses like Canada is. I don’t want our people hurting, but it will get many of us to realize they aren’t immune
Exactly. We do perfectly well without american products! Most of us here are boycotting, maybe it'll have an impact, maybe not, but I refuse to fund this shit.
Elon literally hacked our elections, the rest of the world knows it,but nobody except us sane ones are screaming about it.We need world leaders to refuse to meet with this regime and refuse to do business with us. That would help to get enough of the decrepit leadership on board to ousts this mfker.
I will never understand how trumpet can admit that multiple times, Elon can do nazi salutes at AN INAUGURATION, and yet nothing is being done. This is how fascism takes over.
This is also why we are boycotting America. We will not do business with these people. End of.
Get ready for speculative stuff like this as well. I don’t know how construction planning works in Ireland, but allowing these giants without even the excuse of it being needed, but hoping someone like Amazon will start sniffing around, should be challenged everywhere.
Don’t let that happen. Amazon is insidious, creeping its way in until it takes over your retail, pharmaceuticals, books, groceries, TV viewing, etc. It puts retailers, big and small, out of business. KEEP IT OUT OF IRELAND.
Amazon has already destroyed small businesses that rely on individuals shopping their goods. Employment levels drop because these stores are no more, do not have need for sales support.
Please don't, cherish your physical shops, organise your own coöperative online shop like they did in The Netherlands. If you don't little shops disappear like happened in England.
From a 73yr old in the U.S., Resist Resist Resist shopping on Amazon and get the word out for everyone to boycott before you see everything you mention above gone. It's a sad truth, not a joke!
Thirded. They came in offering tax free purchases (first hook) & free 2 day shipping (second). 25 years later they have eradicated thousands of small (& medium) businesses all while successfully fighting off antitrust suits, overflowing landfills, lowering wages, increasing mindless consumerism. 🤬
Yes, and seeing their (mostly) non-electric vans everywhere, all the time, is a constant reminder of his contribution to climate chaos. If you have access to Flight Radar, it is scary how many Amazon jets are in the air at any moment. He’s tanking the planet & doesn’t care. Unforgivable.
Fight like hell to stop Bezos. He has destroyed small businesses. Instead of many people making a living, he has become a billionaire using the rest of us to work for peanuts while he piles up money and props up the creation of an Oligarchy.
Ireland is on all academic "tax haven lists", including tax NGOs. Ireland does not meet the 1998 OECD definition of a tax haven, but no OECD member, including Switzerland, ever met this definition; only Trinidad & Tobago met it in 2017.
FWIW, bookstores in the US seem to be making a comeback despite Amazon ubiquity. My favorite local bookstore is not surviving, they are thriving. They just recently expanded to take over the whole building they're in!
I don't think book stores are going anywhere any time soon.
Don't use it. It will destroy your businesses and charge higher prices. We know. It happened in the U.S. he started with books and then spread like cancer.
Unfortunately, in 2015 that was not the case. Only recently have Chinese companies like Azio, Denau and OneXPlayer met the standards set by American electronics stores that sell Japanese, Californian and European tech. Getting niche electronics like cables was impossible rurally, unless BezosCorp.
Start a movement among Irish landowners refuse to sell, lease, or rent any land in Ireland to Amazon or any Amazon subsididary. Without land, Amazon can't build the humongous warehouses it needs to function. And Ireland doesn't need those ugly behomeths ruining the countryside anyway.
All you have to do is not buy from them. Cut off any accounts online with them. Don't go to their stores. Remember their CEO is an ugly ass Nazi. Giving him money wld be morally wrong.
Ireland is famous for high tech. Somehow lobby government create an Irish products app linked to the Irish boost office. Asians seem to be able to do this. Japan especially. We have to do that in Canada too.
Don't let it happen.
That bitch Bezo's is quietly planning to take over our Postal Service, while Musk draws all the attention by killing off all the sick and poor.
The answer is simple. By any means necessary keep Bezos and his Amazon out of Ireland. He'll wreck everything, just so he can float around in a half-billion golden barge.
We feel the same pain here. Our Silly Little Store™️ focuses on doing things well that big box retailers and Amaz*n can't. First and foremost, we can give a shit about our customers as people, not just a source of revenue. They can't do that.
We had local book shops in my town until the big book chains & box stores opened up. Shoppers flocked to them. Then digital drawing more away from hard copy. The book shops closed. Then Amazon and other online sellers. The book chains closed. A book trader shop has opened & is thriving. Nice to see.
Just don't sign up. I have never joined prime and checking out without signing up for prime is a challenge. When you find something on Amazon do a search and buy directly from the seller. Truthfully most of their dry goods are crap. It is a source of tea.
As an American who used it as a convenience for years, I would like you all to learn from our lessens. At least you know who Bezos is. I have some comfort knowing MCKenzie Scott, his ex wife is getting huge profits & giving it back in places that matter. A TINY COMFORT that doesn't make up 💔
Prime is just crap anyway
Amazon is so easy, I guess I will just get used to working a bit harder to get the stuff I need
Like I did before Amazon
Because just fuck Bezos
Tell Bezo’s to go to hell. I stopped completely buying from Amazon and have not missed a thing! I buy directly from merchants now. Amazon’s Bezo’s supports Trump-enough said!
Irish media needs to present exposes on Amazon to inform the public about their business model. People need to be prepared for the temptation of lower prices and free shipping at the expense of local retailers, manufacturers, and talent. It's insidious and hard to get out once it takes hold.
I've been boycotting Amazon for years. It takes a little more effort, but those items that cannot be found locally can, usually, be bought online directly from the manufacturer. My little local bookshop can order books for me and have them shipped to the store, at no cost to me, in two days.
Amazon did make it hard to shop locally by wiping out many local businesses. My favorite bookstore, stationary place & pharmacy are long gone. The best way to fight them is to not allow them in. That said, boycotting is easier than I thought & it feels good to talk to humans when buying essentials.
Ireland's bookstores and independent shops are some of the loveliest and most charming I've ever seen in my life. They are worth more than the entirety of Amazon; resist them with everything you have.
Join the club. The world is fucked. Canada is about a few months from being invaded, Colombia and Venezuela's BS leaders are conspiring to destroy Colombian democracy... Have you been living under a rock? I know the Israeli leader committing the 2nd Holocaust is probs obv to the Irish, but Ukraine?
Nobody cares about anything anymore for any reason unless they're ignorant of things that happened. This is what "indie" writers get for anti-escapist trends flooding the market at EXACTLY the time I NEEDED escapism most. Fuck your book industry, I tried to be skilled, competent writer.
I hope that everything the art field has become dies and all of you never write again. Fuck your grimdark. Fuck your dystopias. Fuck your realism. Fuck your anti-escapism. And fuck your echo chamber, you deserve to all be ruined because I never even got basic decency from any of you.
I've had an Amazon subscription for over 20 years, but I have completely stopped using it. If my wife would allow it, I would shut down my Amazon account this minute. But she still uses it regularly, so I'm stuck until she comes around.
You know what to do...
I'm glad you have advanced warning and evidence from the USA what damage they can do. I stopped cold turkey as soon as Bezos turned hard right.
Are you kidding me!
A Nation that could maintain a multi hundred year insurgency is threatened by a high pitched weasel man?
Start taxing the hell out of every damed thing his skivy backside needs; fleet vehicles, prohibition on outsourcing, mandatory unions, etc..
You still have a legislature!
People like Bezos and Musk change the culture of a societal structure so you become dependent on their products. Ireland has a beautiful culture and people. Try not to change that. Always remember an Irish fishing fleet stood off the Russian Navy and won without Trump's help.
I wouldn't count on it, not that it's their fault. England killed them over a hundred years ago, all that's ever been left over is the angry ghosts of those the British Aristocracy killed by starvation.
An American here, I have deleted my Amazon account as have many of my friends. There are far fewer delivery trucks on my block in the past weeks. Do your best to keep them out. Amazon destroys small business. Best of luck to my Irish friends!
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Delete goodreads, audible, kindle—all of it!
-site:amazon.com
Ta-da! Amazon excluded.
I also wonder how much it costs them to handle all of the "we need to edit" & "fixed my typo" posts. An edit button might be a win cost wise.
Stay strong.
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Stay Strong IRELAND !!!
Bezos needs a boycott just like Tesla. A serious one and people need to stop buying from them. It’s clear they are still.
Don't give America space in our lives. They're done, we don't have to be. We can support each other.
I feel for you guys, but... what are we supposed to do?
The thing is ... can you not say "they are done?" We're also fighting a war of morale over here and it's really low. We're marching but no one sees it.
I don't see the democratic party doing anything much, and the damage already done will take years to undo, if at all.
On that basis, we're looking to ourselves and our actual allies.
This is also why we are boycotting America. We will not do business with these people. End of.
In the US, our department stores are folding, neighborhood drug stores are disappearing, and our small businesses have empty storefronts.
-your American friends
I don't think book stores are going anywhere any time soon.
You don’t have to.
Just continue to live the way you are .
Let him fail.
Tell bozz0 🤡 🖕!
I’ve never spent a cent there, surely the rest of the world can do that
That bitch Bezo's is quietly planning to take over our Postal Service, while Musk draws all the attention by killing off all the sick and poor.
Spend the extra £2/€2/$3. Buy local.
Do like Jeff's ex, MacKenzie.
Call it your "fuck you, Jeff" money.
His evil actions have destroyed larger economies but he can be stymied through solidarity!
Good luck to you, my friends!
That's the response I would suggest.
We feel the same pain here. Our Silly Little Store™️ focuses on doing things well that big box retailers and Amaz*n can't. First and foremost, we can give a shit about our customers as people, not just a source of revenue. They can't do that.
#FightOn
#BanAmazon
Prime is just crap anyway
Amazon is so easy, I guess I will just get used to working a bit harder to get the stuff I need
Like I did before Amazon
Because just fuck Bezos
Amazon is terrible for independent stores and media. It has really ruined the US. But, it is convenient, so people use it a lot.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7447291
Violence is probably the only way to stop it.
I'm glad you have advanced warning and evidence from the USA what damage they can do. I stopped cold turkey as soon as Bezos turned hard right.
Looks like a browser's paradise!
many shops and sells a lot of Chinese crap.
A Nation that could maintain a multi hundred year insurgency is threatened by a high pitched weasel man?
Start taxing the hell out of every damed thing his skivy backside needs; fleet vehicles, prohibition on outsourcing, mandatory unions, etc..
You still have a legislature!
Keep the beast at bay.
Be the last bastion of Western Civilization.
Be Ireland.
STOP AMAZON from destroying the World and Earth.
Too much? Too strong? Too bad. BOYCOT AMAZON!
- 'Tesler' Amazon today.