Theres like 80% of the population that still actively shop at Target and Amazon Prime. People buy from Whole Foods instead of the small “mom and pop” European market on the corner.
Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Participating in a boycott this month? You should be doing all that stuff period.
Aneb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I have not been to Target or shopped at Amazon since end of 2024. It was surprising that those 2 habits were the two easiest to correct. If people only knew how easy it is… Deleting Facebook was easy too.
DeGoogling is very hard. I’m still working on it but the progress has made a huge dent in the amount of new personal info available for them to sell, or so I hope. It’s useful to start a list of accounts with emails you need to change and just block YouTube from phone.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s marketing, my friend.
Just inconvenience yourself for this month for the greater good.
Ohh month’s already up… he that wasn’t that bad was it, maybe keep going?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Nah shop Amazon when it costs them money. As in, you know you are buying at or below cost.
I just bought a few things from Amazon, cheaper than any competition to begin with, but also used the last of my Amazon rewards balance.
Then put everything on a 0% interest offer and religiously pay the minimum until the last bill, and pay it all off then. Just don’t forget.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s too much work. I just don’t buy from Amazon.
Willoughby@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
>buy hard drives from Amazon to build your own AWS hosting without Amazon
Ref: I’ll allow it
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I’ve noticed this too, if the same thing’s slightly more on eBay it’s probably someone ordering it for you on Amazon and pocketing the difference
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yep. Good to know that soulless cretins who just want to make a buck off the backs of people with scruples are still out there.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If that happened to me i’d 1 star their asses so fast.
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 3 weeks ago
Yeah, a friend of mine was recently buying markers, and a lot of companies also just… Don’t have their own stores. They either redirect to Amazon, or if they to they still fulfill it through Amazon. Etsy is also full of resellers.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Newegg Commerce, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEGG) is a publicly traded company. It is majority-owned by a Chinese multinational technology firm. Key ownership details include:
Majority Shareholder: Hangzhou Lianluo Interactive Information Technology Co., Ltd. (also known as Liaison Interactive) owns approximately 54.5% to 57.4% of the company.
Founder Stake: Fred Chang, the company’s founder and former CEO, retains a significant ownership stake of roughly 22.1%.
Significant Individual Shareholder: Vladimir Galkin owns about 22.5% of the shares.
Public Float: The remaining shares (approximately 11%) are held by the general public and institutional investors.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I didn’t see bezos or mush in that list.
In a baby steps scenario, I’d count that as a marginal win.