Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
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Don't hurt your back patting it so hard!
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Whatever. I don't think this suggested action is of any use, but quite the opposite, and in other circumstances I would not say anything about it. But what we are going through, in my opinion, is important enough to call it out. Sorry if it sounded condescending, but for once, I think it has to be said.
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I've already been "boycotting amazon" for a while because everything on there is complete dogshit or overpriced and I just don't feel a need to buy anything from them.
Also their website doesn't fucking work on my phone.
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I cancelled Amazon years ago and haven’t looked back. Initial FOMO for basic things and for hard to find items. Funny enough, you get better shipping and better deals FROM the actual company than through Amazon.
Fuck Amazon and anything Bezos owns. Stop funding these billionaire fucks.
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Yep. Half their products feel cheaper in quality than Temu. I cancelled Amazon years ago when I realized they let ANYONE sell on there. Pair that with the corporate monopoly they and others hold, I passed on supporting it.
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A one-week boycott is completely ineffective by design.
Amazon's executives aren't sweating over losing a week of your business. They're a trillion-dollar company that thinks in quarters and years, not days. They'll gladly wait out this symbolic week of inconvenience.
The moment you put an expiration date on your boycott, you've surrendered all leverage. They have zero incentive to change anything because they know you'll be back ordering Prime deliveries next Monday.
Real - actual - boycotts work by creating genuine economic pressure that forces companies to reconsider their practices. They require commitment, not just temporarily pausing your shopping habits.
Emphasis on >habits<, because we're not talking about political parties, it's a shop. A humongous shop for sure, but still a shop, and you can buy what you want from other places.
If you want to actually impact Amazon, you need to be willing to walk away indefinitely until they address your concerns. Otherwise, it's just performative.
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Can't remember the last time I bought something from there.
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B&H is a solid source for computer parts.
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There are things only sold on Amazon because that's where the global mass market is. Even though Amazon does not have a site for every individual country, which other shopping website deliveries to almost every single country? If you want to replace Amazon, spend $5 billion to develop a competitor.
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the stock is already going down, do you think they’ll lose much revenue by this?
Have you checked how much cash they have in their coffers for rainy days
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I am at a weird-feeling place at the moment. I got too comfortable buying things from Amazon, so my brain doesn't know how to shop now. But I canceled my Prime soon after the inauguration, and I'm thinking I need to delete my account all together to kind of force myself to start working on using alternatives.
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haven't bought anything from Amazon in years.
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That's it! Let perfect be the enemy of good!
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The first day is the hardest. You NEED that thing that Amazon has made easy for you to get with just a click from your couch. You drag yourself off the couch grumbling and get on the bus/on the bike/in your car (if you have to) and go out and buy something just as good (if not better), from the local store. You repeat this a few times. By day 7, you realise...you can buy the stuff locally, not supporting a knee-bending billionaire, and the world hasn't ended. Even if you still buy things you just can't find from Amazon after the 7 day boycott, you find many things you can buy locally without funding Nazis. Your total sales goes down, and you're more inclined to shut down Amazon Prime. Eventually, you are only using Amazon as a last resort.
And that's how you go from a 7 day boycott to changing your life.
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...killing my consumption addiction...
This is the key right here. Do more with less. Keep that phone a year or two longer. Don't spend money into the pockets of the billionaires lining up for Trump's new fascist country. A 7 day boycott can show you you CAN go longer than a day without buying from Amazon. And if you can stay away for a week from them, maybe you can do without the unnecessary stuff they're throwing down your throat.
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"...Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon? That’s like addiction shit."
Yes. I have one family member with an amazon affiliated credit card and when it's combined with prime... Anyways, multiple family members use that account to make orders from. This includes ordering cases of softdrinks ever 2-3 weeks.
