Thank you for this, I’m an avid Amazon shopper and I need to try and get away from it, this will be good practice!
@marv99 I can 100% guarantee that I wont be using any Amazon at all. But seeing I never used it before I doubt Bezos will lose a penny over me.
In such case it may be helpful to provide information about every-day shopping-alternatives to the people you know and who are interested in good alternatives :)
@marv99 Yeah sounds about right. Never heard about Thalia before. Ill check out thwir site maybe they have something nice and deliver to NL
Haven’t bought anything off Amazon this year (I used to buy from them quite frequently), I’m going to try a few alternative online shops for my next purchases (e.g. otto, galaxus). I already use specialized shops for a lot of things, but when you want to buy a couple of small things without getting poor from the postage it really helps to use a shop with a large range of products.
I often times use Amazon to find products and see if I can find them elsewhere. Oftentime shops that are selling on Amazon marketplace have even better conditions on their own website. Downside is that additional account might be needed, which can be tedious.
Great, let’s all bulk buy all things we need before boycott, and then bulk restock after it. Boycotts on a population level only work when they occur naturally due to a better/cheaper alternative, what this does is only shift purchases to before/after boycott. I myself have already moved away from amazon in favor of smaller web stores, but I doubt most normal people care.
The only way I can see a “boycott” ever working is if we’re talking about physical stores and people agree to literally steal, the demand gets satisfied and stores get nothing.
