Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.

[Guest]

I’m boycotting Amazon and other stores from now on. If these billionaires and Russian assets want a war, they’ll feel it where it hurts the most—their wallets!

[melfie@lemmings.world]

Convincing your employer to reduce AWS costs, or better yet, go with a different cloud provider would likely have more financial impact than boycotting the portion of the company that represents a smaller percentage of their operating profit.

[iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world]

I deleted my account about a month ago.

[Guest]

The problem of boycotting Amazon for over a year now is that I can't participate in collective actions like this one.

[Guest]

Me too. I'm from europe and it wasn't a big deal for me to avoid Amazon.

[goofschmoofer@lemmy.world]

Really you are ahead of the curve which is great!

[null@slrpnk.net]

Good job

[Guest]

I deleted all my amazon accounts a few weeks ago, and have no plans to go back. When I order things now, I'll just order through the vendor instead of Amazon, I can live with it taking longer or costing a bit more.

[dan1101@lemm.ee]

Yes but when I live 40 miles from a city and hate wandering around multiple stores looking for things they may or may not have. But I know I need to change.

[Guest]

I get where you're coming from, but just like with the single day, people have to start somewhere.

These events can help people break habits and find alternatives without something as big as "never again".

[generic_computers@lemmy.zip]

Correct, that's Temu.

[teslasaur@lemmy.world]

You guys buy from Amazon?

[fattony@lemm.ee]

Ooooooh 7 whole days???? That'll teach 'em. What is this, Whale Wars?

[chiliedogg@lemmy.world]

Wait until the last 2 weeks of the fiscal quarter instead of mid-cycle and the rebound bump won't show up on their quarterly earnings, which will fuck their stock value, which is the only thing that matters to them.

[Guest]

You can make a seven days long hunger strike and that is commendable.

But a previously delimited week not buying commodities you don't need from a particular company with literally thousands of alternatives, sounds just completely ridiculous.

You are not boycotting food production, or sewage, or drinking water... You are suggesting that a seven days strike in buying the Vaseline you will need from the retailer that creates that same need is kind of a revolutionary action.

¡From the people that is dismantling your state!

Your society (and I'm really sorry to tell you this crudely) is deeply sick, if you think this is somehow fierce.

[atheartengineer@lemmy.world]

I cancelled mine recently and will actively try to avoid using it. They also need competition.

[gsus4@mander.xyz]

What have you been using to order RAM/disks/whatever?

[atheartengineer@lemmy.world]

We need to turn this into a cancellation party

[Guest]

I have spent the 38 years I have accumulated without needing to buy a single thing from that particular company. WTF?

[null@slrpnk.net]

Don't hurt your back patting it so hard!