Easily done, I already avoid them.
Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
Submitted 3 days ago by juergen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
TaeKwonDoh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Been doing that since November. Found better, cheaper options locally.
shaun@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just delete your account already.
WarlockoftheWoods@lemy.lol 3 days ago
Lol no, cuz then my option is Walmart and I ain’t doing that.
thejml@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Definitely boycott Walmart. They’ve been horrible a lot longer than Amazon. I haven’t purchased from Walmart in a decade and a half and I see no reason to stop now.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Target? I’ve moved a bunch of my shopping there, and they have pretty fast shipping as well.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
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
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I completely ditched amazon - private and for my company. there are so many other options, slightly less convenient admittedly, but also slightly cheaper. works for me!
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I boycott Amazon years ago already, when a warehouse of people died because employees were told that the government’s tornado warning was just hyperbole.
Amazon is an evil company that treats its workers like garbage, and practices some of the most vile anti-union practices.
I cancelled my Amazon Prime account and never bought a single item through Amazon anymore. I don’t buy anything from Temu either, by the way.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
That warehouse disaster was horrible. Those poor souls. May they rest in peace.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I still can’t believe Amazon got away with it.
SpaceCheeseWizard@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I’ve stopped using amazon as my one-stop shop years ago. I think the majority of the population has gotten too used to convenience over ethic’s.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How exactly will this disrupt the system?
PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I cancelled Amazon years ago and haven’t looked back. Initial FOMO for basic things and for hard to find items. Funny enough, you get better shipping and better deals FROM the actual company than through Amazon.
Fuck Amazon and anything Bezos owns. Stop funding these billionaire fucks.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
Wouldn’t it be easier to disrupt the system by—I don’t know—something old & boring like ask everyone to clean out/close their bank accounts at the same time, and cause a run on banks? Where do people come up with these ideas?
meliaesc@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I want mega corps to fail, not spark a great depression.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, having like <5% of people put off buying stuff for a week isn’t going to do that.
Unfortunately at this point only something fairly world-changing is going to really do much. And it’s definitely going to get much worse before it gets better. Prepare for it.
So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Amazon.com could shut down at any point and Bezos wouldn’t lose anything really. Most of the web runs on Amazon web services. You don’t have to buy anything from them. If you’re online, you’re their product.
PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yes do all of your purchases on the 6th and then on the 15th that’ll really show them!!!
Fucking stupid …
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Haven’t used Amazon for 1.5 years already
rmic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Amazon also got a shit ton of power from AWs
Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
We can only control what we can control
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We need to turn this into a cancellation party
PonderousPorpoise@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.
crabigno@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
A whole week 😲
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I get where you’re coming from, but just like with the single day, people have to start somewhere.
These events can help people break habits and find alternatives without something as big as “never again”.
crabigno@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
You can make a seven days long hunger strike and that is commendable.
But a previously delimited week not buying commodities you don’t need from a particular company with literally thousands of alternatives, sounds just completely ridiculous.
You are not boycotting food production, or sewage, or drinking water… You are suggesting that a seven days strike in buying the Vaseline you will need from the retailer that creates that same need is kind of a revolutionary action.
¡From the people that is dismantling your state!
Your society (and I’m really sorry to tell you this crudely) is deeply sick, if you think this is somehow fierce.
reidand@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Take the plunge and cut them out completely. After I stopped using Amazon I realized it is just like a drug, wasted money on useless things because they want you to consume more and more.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Even people that use Amazon surely are most likely to not buy stuff in any typical week? I just stopped using it.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I deleted my account about a month ago.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
easier to just cancel prime
aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I guess it’s a good thing that I’ve always been a minimalist. These things don’t really impact me. I very rarely buy stuff.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Preach
melfie@lemmings.world 2 days ago
Wait until the 15th to order everything you were going to order this week. That will show them!
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Already canceled my subscription renewal due to Bezos’ prior shenanigans. Unfortunately, still have it until June. But, I don’t plan to use any of it.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Mine ended last month. Don’t miss it.
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, I haven’t used it in a few weeks and haven’t missed it either. I had stopped watching any of their streaming once they started that ads bullshit.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Hey I’m participating for a few years now and I didn’t even know it.
Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Remember to send them an email and let them know you’re boycotting them. They don’t have to know how long you’ve been doing it.
melfie@lemmings.world 2 days ago
Convincing your employer to reduce AWS costs, or better yet, go with a different cloud provider would likely have more financial impact than boycotting the portion of the company that represents a smaller percentage of their operating profit.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they’re fascist capitalist bitches.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You added another descriptive word. They fucking felt that comrade. They won’t recover this time
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Found the guy who didn’t vote lol. Keep being a little bitch, meanwhile we’ll fight for you, loser. stacker.com/…/major-boycotts-changed-history
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I moved on from Amazon to local after the 28th.
shutz@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Much of the province of Québec is already boycotting them since January, after they closed all their warehouses here to prevent them from unionizing.
HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 2 days ago
This is too weak and virtue oriented.
That said, I guess its better than nothing. Focusing on promoting alternatives however would probably be a little more effective. Amazon has a lot of weird niche products that I’ve struggled to find else where from trust-able sellers.
adm@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Way ahead. I deleted my Amazon 😉