Reply to Amazon Prime - kicking the habit

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Amazon Prime - kicking the habit"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not OP, but I posted a question about replacement shopping for amazon and really appreciate all the replies. I think I can drastically reduce my amazon usage.

Question about Target and Walmart. What are the reasons to not switch my shopping to those companies over amazon?

What about these stores?
Giant
Trader Joe's
CVS
Walgreens
Home Goods/TJ Maxx
Dicks Sporting Goods

I think with Costco and the commissary/px, these places could replace almost all of my amazon shopping.

EXCEPT, my kindle. I've used them for over a decade. I rarely buy kindle books, mainly use the library or free classics, but the device itself feels indispensable to me. Any good alternatives? Maybe I'll ask on the book thread. [/quote]

Target - recently cut its DEI programs.  Should they bring them back, I personally will resume shopping there because I think they paid and treated workers OK.
Walmart - generally poor treatment of workers, predatory pricing in small towns, cheap/dangerous products. Also their website has a lot of third party stuff and likely fakes.

Giant is mostly unionized and I think negotiates with the union so I feel like that one is OK

Others I don't really have an opinion on, I would say they are all preferable to Amazon.

[/quote]

Target and Trader Joe’s are both anti union but I shop there anyway because they have a reputation for treating workers slightly better and being more progressive generally (for instance Target has Pride products every year and often features new minority owned businesses).

Giant and Safeway are both unionized so I shop there rather than Amazon or Harris teeter.

I used to boycott Walmart for the reasons PP said but it’s still miles ahead of Amazon.

I also recently discovered that Macy’s now has a same day delivery option.  We had to go to a funeral and I was able to get a very nice suit delivered same day for just $5.  Lots of places also have in store pickup that is pretty convenient for same day or next day.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics