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Fuck Amazon

Alistair said:
I’m the opposite. I haven’t been in a Walmart in several years
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I agree on Walmart.

I have not shopped there since there was a report years ago about how on the Walmart employee website they had links on how to apply for food stamps, low income housing, etc. because they do not pay the employees a living wage.
 
We dont have a Walmart presence in UK anymore, they sold off the Asda chain because they could not make enough money off it. Walmart's US success depends on creating a near monopoly by crushing competition. Our grocery market is intensely competitive, their methods do not work here where the customer has a range of choices. All these companies we love to hate operate the same way, Amazon, Google, Facebook and the rest seek to deny choice so they can dominate the market.
 
rareboy said:
So three things about this to set the stage.

Amazon closed 7 warehouses in Quebec because workers were successful in forming a union.

Jeff Bezos is one of the purely evil broligarchs intent on making the United States a fascist autocracy.

The United States has imposed 25% tariffs on everything from Canada today

So...when I got a call this afternoon from New York and this probably very nice young man explained to me that our business had qualified to become some kind of special Amazon partner account, I emntioned that I saw he was calling from Stamford, New York to Ontario Canada today.

And told him that Amazon and Bezos can go fuck themselves.

(Full disclosure...we stopped using Amazon around September 2024)

Are others here still addicted to Amazon?
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You’re my hero! And yeah, in Montreal thé city has stopped using Amazon.
 
Since Walmart got mentioned... I don't shop there, either. It's just too classy for me.

:lol:
 
jjonn3 said:
I have not shopped there since there was a report years ago about how on the Walmart employee website they had links on how to apply for food stamps, low income housing, etc. because they do not pay the employees a living wage.
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I've heard about that, too.

While Walmart is bad, I suspect other retailers would love to copy the Walmart model if they could get away with it. I remember a bitterly fought grocery store contract that had a couple of cashiers I knew boiling mad because the stores wanted to take away or limit health care benefits that the employees had had for years. One told me she'd heard the line: "You people have Obamacare now!!!!" And another said that with the proposal that week, coupled with her schedule, she'd cycle week to week with/without eligibility for coverage. I have wondered what else might have been said that wasn't semi-commonly known by the people affected. I do remember that a contract only got signed that time at almost the last minute--I think they were literally minutes away from the point the point the union had decided they'd go on strike.
 
Dargelos said:
All these companies we love to hate operate the same way, Amazon, Google, Facebook and the rest seek to deny choice so they can dominate the market.
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The one that still scares me is the monopoly Microsoft had in the 1990s/early 2000s between Windows/Internet Explorer. So many sites only worked reliably in IE. (While IE was theoretically available for the Macintosh, I don't know that it worked as well for IE dependent sites. It used a different browser engine.) It is not a good thing having any one company controlling crucial technology, let alone one so determined to dominate.

I am concerned in today's world how much market share Google Chrome and Chromium derived browsers hold.
 
I've never bought from Amazon itself. I have bought from Amazon Marketplace, which is individual sellers but Amazon gets a cut. It's been a while since I've used them.
And we have a new Amazon Fresh grocery nearby. I haven't been inside.
 
me203 said:
I've heard about that, too.

While Walmart is bad, I suspect other retailers would love to copy the Walmart model if they could get away with it. I remember a bitterly fought grocery store contract that had a couple of cashiers I knew boiling mad because the stores wanted to take away or limit health care benefits that the employees had had for years. One told me she'd heard the line: "You people have Obamacare now!!!!" And another said that with the proposal that week, coupled with her schedule, she'd cycle week to week with/without eligibility for coverage. I have wondered what else might have been said that wasn't semi-commonly known by the people affected. I do remember that a contract only got signed that time at almost the last minute--I think they were literally minutes away from the point the point the union had decided they'd go on strike.
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Pretty much all retailers are the same. I worked for one of the places usually held up as one of the good guys because they offered ESOP, but they did the same things as Walmart and Amazon. I was "union chair" so I saw a lot of crap they would do. Plus they would fire you before you got vested 100% for your ESOP so you got none of it anyway.


You can't boycott all scummy retailers. It is impossible. Beside a lot of manufacturers can be just as bad. Are any of us prepared to start making our own toilet paper, etc.?
 
OMG - Amazon is releasing a new Prime Video animated series from Ramy Youssef reliving his USA childhood during the 9/11 attack.

 
Kahaih said:
Curious

Does Thriftbooks get their inventory from the same suppliers as Amazon? I'd think it all comes from the same places/people.
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I think Thriftbooks gets independent donations and buys books from individuals, but probably has other sources. They sell on Amazon Marketplace, in addition to their own site. Better World Books, another big one, does charitable work (some sort of literacy project) and has collection boxes in various cities, mostly in the northeastern US. They also sell on Amazon. I think BWB sells on Thriftbooks (but not the other way around); I don't remember exactly.
 
/\ Very cool. Thanks for the info.
 
Remember mes amis...

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/\ Maybe they'll have some good Lightning deals for their prime members those days. LOL


And, that logo is ridiculous.Nobody has been captured/taken from their home and forced to work at Amazon. If you want to be taken seriously, present your case intelligently.
 
Kahaih said:
/\ Maybe they'll have some good Lightning deals for their prime members those days. LOL


And, that logo is ridiculous.Nobody has been captured/taken from their home and forced to work at Amazon. If you want to be taken seriously, present your case intelligently.
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*cringes in Kentucky tornado
 
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