Seriously, this fupping company. Cancel Prime. Sell your Kindle and Echo devices. Delete your account. Amazon is only as big as it is because we put it there, and we can put it somewhere else.
I'm on board with this, but if the choice is between having an $8.99 curtain rod show up at my door the next day or going on a city-wide hunt that will almost certainly lead to Walmart and sorrow anyways, then Amazon wins every time. Time, Gas, Mileage, Parking, Crowds. No thanks.
CBC Marketplace did an episode on this subject last year:
That’s what I suspected. It’s best referred to as “waste of energy” (& pollution) then. Calling incinerators anything other than that is absolute bollocks.
... Amazon is only as big as it is because we put it there, and we can put it somewhere else.
No “we” didn’t. Stop blaming the weakest and least powerful element in laissez-faire capitalism. The customer has almost zero influence. We are cattle in this system, not participants.
And the EU goes after Apple for generating e-waste… because of “non-standard chargers and right to repair issues.”
At least Apple makes durable long-lived products.
This is yet another example of politicians not seeing larger issues-like going after the Apple App store as a pseudo-monopoly on iOS when Amazon Marketplace is cannibalizing the entirety of the online economy and engaging in wholesale destruction of products, not to mention purposefully making products that directly compete with their sellers and undercut them. They are actively using their size to consume every larger parts of the economy.
This is whataboutism, not relevant argument. You don’t need to use every news item to defend Apple. Apple has plenty of lawyers. They’re not even part of this article.
We can address more than one type of corporate malfeasance at a time (and it’s absolutely necessary that we do). A failure to go after one company for abuses does not justify letting go of others who are currently under scrutiny.
Seriously, this fupping company. Cancel Prime. Sell your Kindle and Echo devices. Delete your account. Amazon is only as big as it is because we put it there, and we can put it somewhere else.
I'm on board with this, but if the choice is between having an $8.99 curtain rod show up at my door the next day or going on a city-wide hunt that will almost certainly lead to Walmart and sorrow anyways, then Amazon wins every time. Time, Gas, Mileage, Parking, Crowds. No thanks.
Walmart and Amazon are WHY you don’t have other options for local retail.
It is well documented how Walmart destroys independent and smaller regional businesses by using corporate wealth to undercut locals right out of business (and then they sometimes screw the whole community’s economy by arbitrarily shutting down a store after wiping out local businesses, simply because corporate didn’t like the profit margins at that Walmart).
Amazon causes the same issues, only they do it remotely.
Seriously, this fupping company. Cancel Prime. Sell your Kindle and Echo devices. Delete your account. Amazon is only as big as it is because we put it there, and we can put it somewhere else.
I'm on board with this, but if the choice is between having an $8.99 curtain rod show up at my door the next day or going on a city-wide hunt that will almost certainly lead to Walmart and sorrow anyways, then Amazon wins every time. Time, Gas, Mileage, Parking, Crowds. No thanks.
Walmart and Amazon are WHY you don’t have other options for local retail.
It is well documented how Walmart destroys independent and smaller regional businesses by using corporate wealth to undercut locals right out of business (and then they sometimes screw the whole community’s economy by arbitrarily shutting down a store after wiping out local businesses, simply because corporate didn’t like the profit margins at that Walmart).
Amazon causes the same issues, only they do it remotely.
This used to be a much bigger issue, but people seem to have forgotten about it. I’ve personally seen it happen twice near the city I live. In one instance, Walmart opened up and one by one every store in all the neighboring shopping centers closed down. Then, almost every store in the mall across the street shut down. Then, Walmart packed up and moved to a new location 5 miles away and left nothing but a ghost town in its wake. Sad.
that's totally true, I have suffered myself as a marketplace reseller, if you don't retire the returned stuff from costumers or items are staying so long at Amazon's warehousesm they, by default, destroy your items.. these items destroyed are not Amazon's are from the resellers that use their markeplace platform and use Amazon's logistics (FBA) to be able to have their items shipped as prime.
Worked there, I confirm this article to be true. I personally have thrown a mint untouched Xbox controller in what they call the compactor. Crying shame, Phones watch’s etc etc. Various reasons for disposal. The controllers box had been nibbled by a human rat with 4 fingers and a thumb. Don’t know how he thought he has going to get it past security. But that’s another story
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We can address more than one type of corporate malfeasance at a time (and it’s absolutely necessary that we do). A failure to go after one company for abuses does not justify letting go of others who are currently under scrutiny.
It is well documented how Walmart destroys independent and smaller regional businesses by using corporate wealth to undercut locals right out of business (and then they sometimes screw the whole community’s economy by arbitrarily shutting down a store after wiping out local businesses, simply because corporate didn’t like the profit margins at that Walmart).
Amazon causes the same issues, only they do it remotely.