I’m not blaming them. I acknowledged they may not have any other choice. Just pointing out the harms for the benefit of anyone with the option to do something about it
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XeroxCool@lemmy.world 7 months agoAnd what should they do now? Protest it by not having any formula? Don’t victim blame
xionzui@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
sorry twins – daddy isn’t a puppet of capitalism
Emerald@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Buy formula, but not non-essential knick knacks that can be purchased for the same price on another website
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
And when the other website costs more, has worse return policies, slower shipping, and possibly is even a scam site? The problem with Amazon is how good it is even when it’s being evil.
As I said elswhere, I look EVERYWHERE before Amazon first. That involves me checking out BBB on mom&pop storefronts and trying to filter out the scam stores or the ones with significant issues. It involves me price-checking, coupon-checking, seeing if services like Rakuten can get the price to match Amazon’s. I don’t expect most people to do all those things and neither should you.
And even then, I end up buying from Amazon about 2/3 the time. Because I won’t pay 20% more in some meaningless protest that isn’t going anywhere.