I’m still boycotting Amazon for the poor treatment of their warehouse workers.
Still boycotting big corps since inauguration. This made me find a refill store near me, repurpose more items (which actually looks real cool and saves me money), shop second hand, shop local for as much as possible.
Fuck em.
We need to slow the roll on the whole holiday, it’s gotten absolutely insanely out of hand.
We get each other used books and home made gifts nowadays, usually preserves and jelly and various processed goods. I don’t wanna give other people expensive clutter.
That sounds great, I was gifted a make your own hot sauce kit some years ago that I never used and broke that out recently, I came up with a pretty great (imo) pineapple hot sauce that I think I’m going to be gifting haha.
I was boycotting Amazon before boycotting Amazon was cool
Do they still have warehouse workers?
In this current timeline, “boycott” just means millions of us are about to start shoveling millions of dollars out of the US economy and into the offshore accounts of healthcare companies that don’t know what taxes even are, and those of us who don’t die are going to be too poor to afford luxuries like “Amazon Prime” or “food.”
I’m going to do a buy nothing Christmas
I don’t celebrate Christo-fascist holidays anyway, so fucking stoopid.
Yes. Boycott target and Amazon. Do all your shopping at Walmart.
The apparent fact that a store would try to sell to a group while avoid hiring from that same group, is utterly absurd.
Not that absurd when you consider American government hasn’t been enforcing their monopoly laws.
I’m down with this.
It’s a good start but I also think it needs to go past the holiday season to get the point across that we will not shop or use there services again.
Target has been being boycotted for a long time now and it’s reflected in their sales.
So continue what a lot of us were already doing?
Yeah but it’s trendy now and will be for two or maybe even three whole days.
2 or 3 days won’t even register on a weekly report if people buy the products that they didn’t buy after the 3 days.
Just quit using them altogether. It is inconvenient and it is more expensive but making a stand should have a price. Otherwise it would have been just a sensible decision.
Hey, remember when millions of people didn’t buy anything for a single day in protest to show how much power they had and hurt the corporations in the wallets?
Remember the next day when millions of people then bought the stuff they waited a day for.
This is exactly it.
Over the last year I have changed many habits, even the way I cook, to not support these giant corps. I have always been anti-consumerous, but I’ve made drastic changes over the last few years to really reduce my shopping habits. It can be done. It takes a little effort at first but then you get used to it.
That’s exactly how I feel. I don’t use amazon and beyond a 6 month blip during covid never have. It’s incredibly inconvenient so a great way to reduce my consumption.
Yeah, like, I canceled Prime nearly a year ago now and just shop elsewhere. I only buy from companies with shitty policies like these if there’s no other realistic option (e.g. when something is only available on Amazon :/).
I checked a local store that said they closed their doors to the public and online orders only. Ok, I thought. I’ll just order what I want and swing by. No. The order link sent me to Amazon and they only do it through them. Not even will-call it turns out. I gave up and figured I can live without it anyway.
Also, sail the high seas.
What’s an example of something you would need that you can only get on Amazon? I’m just curious
There was a specific CPU cooler that was only sold through Amazon. Wasn’t at my local computer store or any other online retailers.
Ah, thank you. I never use Amazon and I was just curious what kind of things would only be available there. A computer part makes sense.
It’s not like you’d buy a CPU part constantly, but I’m kind of bummed that we don’t have more seller options for things like this.
Yeah, I wasn’t very happy that I had to use Amazon for it :/
I’m doing my part! I’ve boycotted them already for supporting the fascist dictator who threatened my country.
Let’s not buy anything from them even harder!!
I browse Amazon all the time. I add stuff to my cart and leave it for weeks. Then I delete it all.
All parking lots with flock surveillance systems should be boycotted, at a minimum.
Be a real shame if you accidentally backed into one of those camera systems and knocked it over, too.
You’d likely have to pay for it
Much better way to get rid of them: Submit a FOIA request for their data. So far many cities are simply getting rid of them to prevent that data being public
Even if the government is happy to comply with the request, the data is a powerful tool to sway public sentiment. Camera near some bars? Request the data from 1:30-2:30 each weekend morning. Near a church? Request the Sunday morning data. Whole lot of people will realize how dangerous Flock cameras are when you anonymously post lists of people doing various things to one of those neighborhood apps
Note: The government can charge “reasonable” amounts based on costs incurred complying with a FOIA request. I recommend keeping your requests narrow as a result
Fuck me they’re everywhere
Dont forget all Amazon Ring cameras are part of Flock now.
I’m pretty sure Target has been losing money and has even gotten a new CEO, so clearly what we’ve already been doing has been working. Save yourself money anyway.
tgt’s last quarterly loss (negative net income) was over a decade ago, and it was just one quarter.
We have 3 targets, they have all went way down hill in the last year. They are dirtier, less cashiers, empty shelves, bad produce, and stale bakery. They employees all seem miserable as well.
Could also be that their selection sucks now and they have nothing worth buying
Unless the trend continues, a lot of companies take losses in a quarter where there is a new CEO, so that way they can blame it on the last guy
I would recommend cutting Amazon anyway. You don’t realize how much useless junk you buy when it’s just that easily available. I’ve saved so much money since I cut it.
