The key is 100% boycotting all services provided by a company. Wikipedia’s list of Amazon product/services as reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_products_and_services).

Incidentally, I know entire neighborhoods that don’t have other grocery stores besides Target/Whole Foods, not to mention that AWS is the cloud computing industry standard… As a personal example, my vet-prescribed cat foods are manufactured by Purina, a subsidary of Nestlé (needless to say, a separate but also extremely evil large corporation)

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    We don’t have power as “consumers”.

    If even 10% of consumers “bought” like I do the economy would suffer greatly. Almost everything I acquire was trash, recycled, repurposed, used, etc. I could show someone around my house and property for 2 solid hours showing off all the deals I got or created.

    Just in the last week I’ve found in my hood:

    • Nice dryer - repaired and selling now
    • 3 vacuum cleaners, 2 of which are also carpet cleaners and are brand new, cleaning for sale
    • Leaky, portable ice maker, probably just needs unclogged
    • 3 kid’s scooters, fixing up the best for my daughter
    • 1 girl’s bike, fixing for my daughter
    • More that I’m forgetting. Had to stop and get this stuff fixed and/or sold.

    I was building stuff yesterday with culled lumber from the hardware store, $50 for $1,400 worth. When I got home I helped my wife with a sweet curio cabinet she got for $35. LOL, it’s huge!

    tl;dr: I find it weird that people just go out and buy stuff new when there’s so much free/cheap/used goods to be had.