Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
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One thing Amazon is better at (at least here in Germany) is free shipping. But seeing how that is a least partially responsible for creating a cutthroat delivery market, where companies contract out delivery work to barely self-employed drivers for barely any money, paying for shipping doesn't seem like a bad idea (even though I know the drivers won't really see any of that money in the end)
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If we were to assume that everyone would just wait until the 15th to do all their amazon orders that they waited a week for then I would agree it's symbolic.
For many, this will be what happens, but for some, they will find an alternative. Then maybe in the future they chose that alternative too. It's about gradual progress towards better alternatives. For you, maybe finding ways to make your work less reliant on those things would help. Or if that's not possible maybe working somewhere else that doesn't make you sacrifice your values.
As an example, one person choosing to educate themselves on animal welfare might not have much effect today, or tomorrow, or even next week. But after years, even small changes can mean the elimination of suffering for dozens or hundreds of lives.
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I already started my boycott last month.
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Americans really dont know how to protest...
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Yeah but it lets people feel like they've boycotted. Which isn't coddling/faux activism so much as it is starter-activism.
We don't want activism to seem hard... even though we know that effective activism pretty much requires meaningful changes to behaviour which often brings discomfort.
People are really out of practice -
This is dumb.
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Just permanently switch to buying from AliExpress.
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Don't just delay and then buy delayed 5 days later.
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Send money to wfp party instead of Dems.
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have u ever forgotten to pay at Walmart?
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buy a gun while u can. It takes some fucking effort in blue states.
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go on Amazon - you can print a custom garden flag.
Print Luigi and post it in your yard. -
start building a troll farm
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Can't - they practically monopolized china reshipment and white labeling In US.
Best u can do - check qlibaba, temu, AliExpress first and order from there
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Amazon monopolized china reselling industry
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TFW when I rarely use Amazon anyway.
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My hope would be that some people realize they don't need it after all and cancel their subscriptions and such.
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"Vote with your wallets" is a common expression among Americans after all.
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How exactly will this disrupt the system?
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I cancelled my prime membership. I'm going to look around for alternatives before I delete my account which I more than likely will be doing at this point.
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I mostly shop on eBay now. Way better anyway.
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I don't even understand what people buy so often. I can easily go a month without buying a new physical item that's not like, food
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Do you guys really rely on Amazon so much that one week without feels like a protest? Seriously?
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Amazon breaking new records after the "protest"
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I used to use amazon mainly if i looked for some item that i didn't even nnow existed, because their search function used to be pretty good. Or to get ratings on a product or whatever. I rarely ever bought something. Now all that is useless. No matter what you search, they show the sposored shit, and the ratings are stupid, most things are temu dropshippers.
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I really liked ebay like 20 years ago. Now at least here, it's just for people dropshipping stuff or sell stuff super overpriced. Like more expensive than new. It's such a weird place.
