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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should be shopping locally. It’s better for your community, and for the environment.

And you should be avoiding retailers that you know full well are awful to their employees. You vote with your dollar. Are you really OK with Amazon workers being forced to skip bathroom breaks, etc?

Of course there will be times when you have to order online. But when you can, you should be buying as close to home as possible.[/quote]

The stuff you buy at Costco or anyplace else comes from other places. Even handcrafted items use materials and equipment that come from other places. And if items are not delivered you have to drive to the vendor and pick it up. And I have seen some analyses suggesting that buying locally grown food (unless it's from your own garden) results in more transportation, not less.

I don't buy a lot of stuff online, mostly if it's something where I'm not sure who will carry it and don't want to do a lot of hunting around locally. I usually try to buy direct from the vendor, not from Amazon. (This, of course, results in a lot of catalogs being mailed to my house, so there's that).

I loathe spending time in stores. One thing I DO do is pack as much into a single trip. Like, this week the only grocery item I really need is green onions. But I am out of dish soap (don't have a dishwasher, kitchen is tiny) and I buy a bulk size. I also need a bottle of bleach (I keep one in the basement laundry and one in the kitchen, the kitchen bottle is empty). And I'm out of spare light bulbs and a few lamps/light fixtures have gone dark. So before I head out to get green onions and dish soap I will think about anything else I am likely to need in the next month. [/quote]

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