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That's the reason why I don't buy anything from Amazon and prefer to pay a bit more to a local store instead.
by joana035 5y ago
That's the reason why I don't buy anything from Amazon and prefer to pay a bit more to a local store instead.
- _huayra_ 5y agoYes, and without too much effort one can also just shop online at other retailers (in case one lives way out in a rural area). Maybe free 2-day shipping won't happen at other places, but free shipping and equivalent prices are easy to find.
- joana035 5y agoYes, that is what I do (buying online but from a more local seller). If it takes 2 or 5 days to delivery doesn't makes much of a difference for me at least, I will have to wait anyway.
- throwawayboise 5y agoI have also stopped buying from Amazon. I rarely got two day delivery from Amazon anyway.
- danaliv 5y agoSame here. Between their garbage labor practices and the fact that everything on Amazon had become, well, garbage, it was an easy call to make.
- heavyset_go 5y agoIt's been at least 5 years since Amazon has had competitive prices for the things that I buy. Most of the manufactured items on Amazon are just white label products from Alibaba, and you can buy them cheaper on AliExpress.
- dawnerd 5y agoBeen using Target Staples, and Bestbuy more and while they don’t always have the same items, brand names end up being roughly the same price due to auto price matching and contractual minimum prices. Only times I’m using amazon is for cheap items no one else will ship. They’ve really just turned into AliExpress.
- nerdponx 5y agoSame here, but I wonder if Target warehouse employees have been pissing in bottles all along and the news just never picked up on it.
- slices 5y agoI don't know about the warehouses, but a family member stocked shelves at Target for years, and was paid the minimum wage the whole time. Hours were 1) part time, 2) too inconsistent to allow any other work.
- auiya 5y agoOf course they do. And lots of other awful shit you'll see in this thread - https://twitter.com/BanishedBernie/status/1376455874533801985 https://twitter.com/BanishedBernie/status/137645587453380198...
- dawnerd 5y agoThere really isn't a company at that scale that doesn't have problems. I rank Target over Amazon simply because I know the products are going to be legit. Most of the time I'm doing curbside pickup there anyways. And don't forget, Apple was also doing shady stuff: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/3/21419729/apple-california-pay-workers-class-action-bag-searches https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/3/21419729/apple-california-...
- doktorhladnjak 5y agoAnd with those companies you actually get the brand name item instead of a knock-off!
- crocsarecool 5y agoI felt like I had to remember how to shop other places online as I’ve been making my switch to less Amazon. I’m so tired of finding little business cards in all my orders to review the products. I gave a bad review on a vacuum cleaner, and the seller has been contacting me every few weeks to refund me if I take it down. I sympathize with sellers because I know it’s hard to sell anything less than a five star product on there. The whole system feels so broken these days.
- f6v 5y agoDo you do this under the assumption that no local store treats employees unfairly?
- lasfter 5y agoCertainly not on the scale of Amazon.
- Pfhreak 5y agoWe talk about Amazon being able to do distributed systems "at scale" all the time. They also do worker exploitation at scale. There are knock-on effects -- for instance we might look at a mom and pop shop and say, "That's not ok, I won't do the bad thing they do to their employees at my shop." But we'd look at Amazon and say, "Well, if Amazon does it, then surely I can too."
- 1-6 5y agoYes, I also started to pay for shipping overall. (Convenience or Sm. Business Labor) > Shipping Fee.