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People in tech vastly overestimate the amount of people who dislike Amazon. Your Average Joe could not be happier with Amazon and does not give a second thought

People in tech vastly overestimate the amount of people who dislike Amazon. Your Average Joe could not be happier with Amazon and does not give a second thought to their business practices or worker treatment.

dylan604 6y ago
Exactly why WalMart is still a thing
astrea 6y ago
Breaking news: people are generally selfish.
- scrimps 6y ago
  Businesses hate competition.
- jimmaswell 6y ago
  You're assuming most people can afford to martyr themselves to pay extra on every purchase out of a moral stance. Even if someone can afford that, I think it's been demonstrated futile to try to affect market behavior on the basis of employee treatment that's so normalized to everyone. Boycotts have worked on other specific issues on certain brands but it seems like people just don't care enough about Amazon's worker treatment or Nestle's horrible activities in Africa. So if those are never going to change without legislation then I can't really hold it against anyone for not paying out the nose to avoid Wal Mart and Amazon.
  - searchableguy 6y ago
    so everyone pays more in the long run.
- asdff 6y ago
  Most people are just poorly informed.
noizejoy 6y ago
Less than 40% of Average Joes apparently [0] [0] https://morningconsult.com/most-trusted-brands/ https://morningconsult.com/most-trusted-brands/
- qvrjuec 6y ago
  Either you missed the point of that survey or you're deliberately misrepresenting its results. Did you miss the sentence that said 'This ranking is determined by share of "a lot" responses.'? Amazon is the 2nd most trusted brand, according to that survey.
  - noizejoy 6y ago
    I might have translated that survey result more into something like “No major brand deemed trustworthy by majority of consumers. Amazon a little less distrusted than most other major brands”.
    - qvrjuec 6y ago
      I can't find anything specific about the survey methodology related to this data, but there being an 'a lot' response implies to me the existence of answers like 'a little' as well that convey trust
barrenko 6y ago
Yess. Amazon works, proved it works in a serious global crisis, does better job than that other "service" that takes a lot of your paycheck. Now you maybe can't get some niche item, or you shop stupid, doesn't mean it's not a wonderful service and perfectly valid utility. Amazon is a company that does actual stuff, it's not just software that should have "better product search".

dylan604 6y ago

Exactly why WalMart is still a thing

astrea 6y ago

Breaking news: people are generally selfish.

scrimps 6y ago
Businesses hate competition.
jimmaswell 6y ago
You're assuming most people can afford to martyr themselves to pay extra on every purchase out of a moral stance. Even if someone can afford that, I think it's been demonstrated futile to try to affect market behavior on the basis of employee treatment that's so normalized to everyone. Boycotts have worked on other specific issues on certain brands but it seems like people just don't care enough about Amazon's worker treatment or Nestle's horrible activities in Africa. So if those are never going to change without legislation then I can't really hold it against anyone for not paying out the nose to avoid Wal Mart and Amazon.
- searchableguy 6y ago
  so everyone pays more in the long run.
asdff 6y ago
Most people are just poorly informed.

noizejoy 6y ago

Less than 40% of Average Joes apparently [0] [0] https://morningconsult.com/most-trusted-brands/ https://morningconsult.com/most-trusted-brands/

qvrjuec 6y ago
Either you missed the point of that survey or you're deliberately misrepresenting its results. Did you miss the sentence that said 'This ranking is determined by share of "a lot" responses.'? Amazon is the 2nd most trusted brand, according to that survey.
- noizejoy 6y ago
  I might have translated that survey result more into something like “No major brand deemed trustworthy by majority of consumers. Amazon a little less distrusted than most other major brands”.
  - qvrjuec 6y ago
    I can't find anything specific about the survey methodology related to this data, but there being an 'a lot' response implies to me the existence of answers like 'a little' as well that convey trust

barrenko 6y ago

Yess. Amazon works, proved it works in a serious global crisis, does better job than that other "service" that takes a lot of your paycheck. Now you maybe can't get some niche item, or you shop stupid, doesn't mean it's not a wonderful service and perfectly valid utility. Amazon is a company that does actual stuff, it's not just software that should have "better product search".