If you are avoiding Amazon and Target, where are you buying what?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to not support Amazon and Target but miss the one-stop shopping. If you're doing the same, how is it going? I've been having to shop at many more places for the things I used to buy:

- Local grocery store
- Local drugstore
- Local hardware store
- Chain beauty retailer
- Online directly from brand

I gave in and bought my family's preferred laundry detergent from Target because it's not widely available.

Any recs to make fewer trips? I don't want to support Walmart either.

[Anonymous]

I’m not boycotting or avoiding any story.

However, even before the election, over the summer, I decided to pinch more pennies and I just shop less. I try to only buy the necessities. How that pertains to you is that while I’m not avoiding a boycotting anybody, in general, my frugality isn’t benefiting them only me.

[Anonymous]

I joined Costco and they deliver!

[Anonymous]

Facebook marketplace

Goodwill

Poshmark

Costco

[Anonymous]

I've never shopped at Target, but I love Amazon and I'm keeping my Prime membership. Bezos and Zuckerberg aren't the problem, here. (Don't use Facebook or any Meta product).

[Anonymous]

Most items that I use on a regular basis I can get from Costco or my local grocery store.

For Amazon replacements, I try to shop directly from the brand.

In general, I'm just buying less overall.

[Anonymous]

If you are in NW DC, Rodman's (lower level) is a good replacement for Target.

[Anonymous]

I'd love a good replacement for kids stuff - specifically basic clothes, not the kind I would get as hand-me-downs. For example, socks, underwear, leggings. Where you shop for these?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd love a good replacement for kids stuff - specifically basic clothes, not the kind I would get as hand-me-downs. For example, socks, underwear, leggings. Where you shop for these?

Don't sleep on Kohls! It's old school but seriously...Nice selection of Under Armour, Nike, etc for kids. Also good for shoes, homewares, toys for gifts, socks, bras, etc.

[Anonymous]

Costco. Also, local community supported agriculture subscription.

[Anonymous]

You are right, OP--it's more planning/time spent shopping. The reason big box stores/websites are successful is because they are convenient.

I haven't been able to cut out target/amazon 100%, but I'm down to 1 or 2 deliveries a month vs 2-3 a week. Some things I just can't find elsewhere: I went to the website of the makeup company I wanted to order from and they redirected to amazon/walmart/target to buy from. I broke the lid to my coffee cup and I could either buy a whole new travel mug + lid for $45 from the company directly or a replacement lid on amazon for $5.

Every little bit of redirecting funds makes a difference, even if it's not everything.

[Anonymous]

OP, why are you avoiding Amazon and Target? Are you trying to make a political statement? If so, there are certainly more egregious offenders out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, why are you avoiding Amazon and Target? Are you trying to make a political statement? If so, there are certainly more egregious offenders out there.

Exactly. I've posted on this subject before, but really people are being short-sighted here. If you want to rein in your spending in these uncertain times, more power to you!

But the people who are responsible for the current situation are not the owners of Target and Amazon. All the tech and business leaders, and all foreign heads of state, and now a law firm and an Ivy league university, have made token gestures towards this administration, because they understand Trump's motor runs solely on retribution against perceived slights. He's never thanked enough, never flattered enough, and money talks. If you do that, maybe he'll be putty in your hands, as Putin well understands. The calculus today is: what minimal gesture will get him off your back? How much can you then get away with afterward to return to normal operations without the White House noticing? Because you bet that's what Paul Weiss and Columbia are going to do.

Also consider this: the autistic billionaire who has announced that we need to fight against empathy stands to gain billions in government contracts and has now put himself in a position of incredible strength inside the federal government. Blue Origin is a rival. Meta is a rival. If you had any long-range strategic thinking into this at all, and you really should, you'd see that the other billionaires need to be encouraged to get closer to this administration to act as counterweights to this one billionaire. We cannot let taxpayer money and American influence flow towards just one guy. The more these people fight for pieces of the pie, the smaller the pie pieces each of them gets. This is the least worse scenario for us little people.

[Anonymous]

I never really got into target so that's never been an issue. I stopped random Amazon purchases and moved all me subscriptions either direct to company - tea and soap or another market. We get most things from Costco, TJ, local grocery store. My kids will manage without last minute random crap from Amazon. I will buy more stuff than usual second hand from Poshmark. That's about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, why are you avoiding Amazon and Target? Are you trying to make a political statement? If so, there are certainly more egregious offenders out there.

Exactly. I've posted on this subject before, but really people are being short-sighted here. If you want to rein in your spending in these uncertain times, more power to you!

But the people who are responsible for the current situation are not the owners of Target and Amazon. All the tech and business leaders, and all foreign heads of state, and now a law firm and an Ivy league university, have made token gestures towards this administration, because they understand Trump's motor runs solely on retribution against perceived slights. He's never thanked enough, never flattered enough, and money talks. If you do that, maybe he'll be putty in your hands, as Putin well understands. The calculus today is: what minimal gesture will get him off your back? How much can you then get away with afterward to return to normal operations without the White House noticing? Because you bet that's what Paul Weiss and Columbia are going to do.

Also consider this: the autistic billionaire who has announced that we need to fight against empathy stands to gain billions in government contracts and has now put himself in a position of incredible strength inside the federal government. Blue Origin is a rival. Meta is a rival. If you had any long-range strategic thinking into this at all, and you really should, you'd see that the other billionaires need to be encouraged to get closer to this administration to act as counterweights to this one billionaire. We cannot let taxpayer money and American influence flow towards just one guy. The more these people fight for pieces of the pie, the smaller the pie pieces each of them gets. This is the least worse scenario for us little people.

I don't think shopping at Costco or Goodwill is helping Musk. They all could use a take down.