I keep running into the same exact thing.
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numlok@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ugh, here’s a new wrinkle (at least to me), that literally showed up in my inbox as I was reading this post.
I’m actively trying to avoid Amazon, researched and found the site of a small company making the product I’m looking for, and then find out that Amazon is handling their shipping.
No mention of this anywhere on their site.
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Aphelion@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Broken@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
This just happened to me. I purchased shoes and they shipped via Amazon even though I didn’t buy them there.
I think that’s part of what people don’t understand. Amazon isn’t a website that sells stuff, they are a dozen infrastructure based industries.
Shut down their website and they still have the logistics to fulfill for the sites you shop on and their servers are probably hosting them too.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
That’s vertical integration, and the end result for a virus like Amazon is that, left unchecked, they own everything.