I agree that Amazon is not a great company but some of y'all act like shopping in person at Target or Walmart instead is this great moral victory and I feel like that might be a bit misguided.
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My money is enriching bad people. Even Costco. The items on the shelves are as much an issue as the stores that sell them. We need to focus on laws and regulations. I can't boycott our 3 brand monopolies and still have toilet paper and food.
Costco pays their people good wages and benefits.
They deliver too. So, I do have a choice and let my money talk.
Doesn't have to be 100% all the time. But I love NOT giving the assholes my money.
I live alone, so I don't need the bulk part either, but I have to say, their toilet paper is the best. I'm pretty sure I have my membership primarily for that...😂
We live in a semi rural New Hampshire area that recently got a small Target. I walked through while waiting for my snow tires to be mounted. Culturally jarring. At Amazon you mostly see things related to what you're seeking and there's not (yet) any music.
I have been trying alternatives, but not only out of moral outrage. The only part of shopping on Amazon that isn't aggravating is the fast shipping & that is almost never necessary. If I know what I want and it's not local, I buy it direct. If I want to see options, I go to a specialty site.
I at least am going to make an effort to wean off my Kindle addiction (so portable! SO EASY!) and at the very least get another e-reader that I can use to buy from indies.
it won't hurt Amazon, but it -will- help indie booksellers and that's good on its own.
If you buy ebooks that are DRM-free, you can use a program like Calibre to convert them so you can read them on your Kindle. Some public libraries loan books in Kindle format, too; which probably gives Amazon a little money, but much less and using the library in any way generally helps the library.
I agree in part and disagree in part. Boycotts have never meant "stop consuming," but about not buying what you one do without. The modern economy is set up so that it can't persist without unnecessary consumption. Distraction, escapism, convenience are things people pay a lot for, but don't *need*.
On those admittedly-rare occasions that enough people willingly stop spending money on something they don't need, companies can take a huge hit. Consider Bud Light. As dumb and evil as the reasoning for it was, it demonstrates the power consumers have but rarely exercise.
Or that people can afford not to. We need to stop criticize individuals for their choices in a free market capitalist society, and start doing things to improve the society so healthy choices are more accessible.
I'm not especially serious here, shop wherever you want, but it's also not as if both don't have online components or that brick and mortar is either especially laudable or actually even exists.
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They deliver too. So, I do have a choice and let my money talk.
Doesn't have to be 100% all the time. But I love NOT giving the assholes my money.
it won't hurt Amazon, but it -will- help indie booksellers and that's good on its own.
"just stop consuming" is not gonna be a thing, but get down with your anarcho-primitive self I guess
only dollar general is praxis
I mean you absolutely can via Instacart or order online but storage is an issue.
I live in Walmart country.
and also yeah there isn't a ton of daylight in said gradient between Walmart and Amazon.