• snoosmart@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      Bro, you really gotta chill with the judgment. People can spend their hard-earned cash on whatever they want, even if it’s some weird shit you don’t understand. It’s their life, their choice. I make 400 grand a year and spend my money on mail order brides so I can show them my Rolex and Lamborghini, then spend the remainder on sex toys so we can fuck in my Lamborghini, literally do not use of for anything else, and never once drove it.

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      I cancelled my prime sub a long time ago. Probably eight or nine years ago. Amazon isn’t even a good place to buy things anymore. So many knockoffs and counterfeits mixed in with the real stuff. The only time I even use it is when I get a gift card, which is often unfortunately. My wife does a ton of studies and they seem to all pay in Amazon gift cards.

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        I think the tariffs are going to make amazon’s business model suffer. Can’t say I like them, but when 90% of my search results are items with random all-caps names, I don’t think I’d buy them if they were 34% more expensive.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Is there a list of retail companies that are still committed to DEI policies? The only one I know of is Costco.

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    I froze these fuckers out long ago. Before shopping anywhere I look into their policies as of 2025.

    No need to wait.

    Incidentally I’ve probably saved 300 bucks just by not convenience shopping

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    If you don’t buy from them, how will Krasnov pay for the tax cuts for the 1 percent douchebags in bed with him?

    Won’t someone please think of their poor children that they refuse to provide for? Have some empathy!

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    I haven’t bought from or through Amazon in at least a decade, and that’s mainly because of their sweatshops and overall anti-union orientation. If I can’t find something locally at a thrift shop or at some locally-owned not-quite-big-box shop, then I’ve bought via eBay. Am I still a Collaborator … does eBay deserve a boycott too, and if so why [based on corporate shittiness, not product shittiness]?

    I haven’t given a cent to Target in at least 5 years since they F-d me over on a return - a return that was 100% due to a mistake on their part, but that’s a personal grudge. Still nice to see the boycott as Target shareholders and management deserve it.

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    I used target for breakfast bars as my kid only wanted the target brsnd ones, but I have Lidl branded ones a shot and have been able to replace them. ✌️

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      Same. I had some Target-brand stuff I liked that. A few months ago, I tried shopping at different stores and realized how much more/better products existed. Loving all the Asian supermarkets out there.

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      Amazon? Yeah me too bar a 6 month moment of weakness back in covid. I felt dirty so nuked the account. It really is all about making consumption harder

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        I still have an account to create a saved list and then go to the manufacturer website!

        Alternatively, I’ve suggested to my friends to create a single order for each item.

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    I love that consumers might be causing financial pain to big corporations, however:

    Target, Walmart, and Amazon have always engaged in practices that harm individuals of every color and creed. The fact that DEI has become the impetus for these boycotts is evidence of the extent to which republicans still control the narrative. Liberal media sources follow right in step and whip their audiences into a fervor as well.

    In reality, these companies directly exploit workers all the way down the supply line and up to the point of retail. We’re supposed to be mad that a small portion of those being exploited won’t be as diverse? That really sounds an awful lot like some neolib right-to-work shit.

    Amazon in particular. We all should have absolutely buried Amazon years ago. Better late than never, but getting rid of DEI is not even in the top 100 horrible things Amazon has done.

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      This would be the best time to boycott these companies with the tariffs going on they will be hit doubly hard.

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      Amazon in particular. We all should have absolutely buried Amazon years ago. Better late than never, but getting rid of DEI is not even in the top 100 horrible things Amazon has done.

      I’m probably going to get shit on for this, but I’ve always supported Amazon until last couple years for one big reason, it gave competition to Walmart. Amazon’s union busting practices were learned from the Walton masters, those of y’all who remember Walmart having butchers? The reason they’re gone is they unionized and Walmart got rid of them. Walmart will invade a town, bullying them to build their store without having to pay for utilities or they’ll move to the next down over, run that store at a loss until all competition is gone then if it’s too small a town they’ll close it down forcing people to go to the central hub. They have training for employees to get food stamps while actively avoiding letting people work full time to avoid giving benefits… things they’ve been doing since Amazon was a bookstore in a garage.

      And if you’re against Project 2025, the Walton Family was one of the three that proudly donates to the Heritage Foundation.

      I am here to go against any of these big corporations and Amazon is number 2 on the list, both need to go down. But as someone who used to live in its hometown I’m just consistently baffled that Walmart is somehow teflon to the outright attempts to bring it down whereas Target and Amazon get them every time. If anyone wants to know on size of these companies, Walmart is number 1 company by revenue, Amazon is number 2. The next 4 companies are State owned by China or Saudi Arabia, and 7th had a CEO Luigi’d.

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      Anytime people decide to do something good there are always people who shit on it and say it’s not enough.