Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
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I can't deny the convenience Amazon provide people in terms of their logistics and the range of products available in one place.
In saying that, it's really not that difficult to forgo, and there are plenty of alternatives. Don't buy books: get a library card. Buy your electronics from Canada Computers or other similar stores. Healthy Planet and Well.ca are great for cosmetics and self care. Trade prime for a Plex server. There are plenty of options.
I fully deleted my amazon account at the start of this Trump mess and asked them to delete all of my personal data. Life goes on.
I agree about the "everything in one place"; besides that, in terms of shopping, there's not much to it. There used to be some services that were pretty neat, e.g. unlimited cloud storage for photos (including RAW files) for something like 50 EUR/year, but of course they axed that.
Plenty of alternatives for everything, just maybe a little less convenient.
In terms of media, I don't stream; whatever I pay for is either at local shows where I buy CDs from artists directly, or through label stores, or through outlets like Bandcamp (btw it's Bandcamp Friday right now until the end of the weekend, go support what you like).
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Unorganized boycotts with no demands and no pressure from labor unions are useless. Boycotts in support of labor are absolutely class solidarity.
This one is useless. As most "reddit" boycotts are.
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Easily done, I already avoid them.
Been doing that since November. Found better, cheaper options locally.
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It sends a message - this is a warning shot. If things don't change, another extended boycott can be organised. These people think quarterly, 7 days isn't insignificant on that time horizon.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
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I have been boycotting them for the last 7 years. I'll gladly participate with this one for: indefinitely
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Amazon also got a shit ton of power from AWs
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What are you doing?
Never buying anything at all from Amazon, ever. -
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I completely ditched amazon - private and for my company. there are so many other options, slightly less convenient admittedly, but also slightly cheaper. works for me!
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Boycotts like this do nothing because the people most willing to "participate" are people who already don't purchase from Amazon. Even if you were able to get a critical mass of people to participate for even 3 months. So what? Amazon will post 1 bad quarter and then things go back to business as usual. Nothing happens. They don't even really lose any money. At least none out of pocket, of which they have plenty for things such as this.
Amazon is a subscription model. You want to hurt them, then hurt their subscriptions. Don't boycott them, cancel Prime.
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Amazon also got a shit ton of power from AWs
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I have been boycotting them for the last 7 years. I'll gladly participate with this one for: indefinitely
Awesome. Do you still buy online from other billion dollar companies or have you been able to go all local? I’m having a hard time getting past the convenience and cheapness they are able to provide. I have cut back a huge amount though since Covid where I never wanted to leave home to purchase things I need for home.
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Awesome. Do you still buy online from other billion dollar companies or have you been able to go all local? I’m having a hard time getting past the convenience and cheapness they are able to provide. I have cut back a huge amount though since Covid where I never wanted to leave home to purchase things I need for home.
Forgoing the convinience isn't easy, even gotta look at the purchase and decide if it'll be used frequently or just a use and throw
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That's it! Let perfect be the enemy of good!
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This just in folks, boycotting Amazon for a week is "no good". Don't do it!
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Doing my boycott for the half a year already and at best are uszally small things like tea bags because that type is nowhere I have seen yet.
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Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they're fascist capitalist bitches.
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I disagree. Even if just YOU boycott and no one else does. The boycott does something. Even if you don't believe in it, step aside and push the train forward while it passes you. Don't create friction.
I agree with the principal of personal boycotts, though not effective in doing anything to affect the companies that you are boycotting, are necessary. But OP is right. For instance I have been boycotting Chick-fil-A for the last 10 years because I don't agree with their homophobic attitude. But it has zero effect on their bottom line because no one else boycotts them or even cares. I think the kesson is that you should not expect any kind of real outcome from your personal boycott of a company. You should just be satisfied that you are not personally supporting that company.
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