Alternatives to Amazon

In My Humble Opinion
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Yes. However it wasn’t me that brought up the monopoly issue. Talk to ZipperJJ and Elmer J Fudd.
In fact, my first posts were about Temu.

I disagree. There are many companies that are tangled up or are accused of us cheap overseas labor, including Temu. A very short list includes:
North Face
L.L. Bean
Uniglo
Adidas
Fila
Puma

It’s a problem, I get it. But, sorry, I can’t fact check all of the transgressors. Like I mentioned upthread, I donate to a lot of charities, I try to be a good person but there millions of injustices out there. I make choices based on weighing the available evidence.

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Again- a lawsuit alleging. And yes, Amazon delivery drivers do that- so do UPS, Fedex, USPS, DHL and others.

It doesn’t.

Not quite- it was about an organized boycott of Amazon because…reasons.

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Talk about non-sequiturs & strawmen! Your donating to charity doesn’t make Amazon do the right thing, does it? Nope, Amazon being a jerk isn’t offset by your personal donation to some unrelated charity; it’s not even offset by their donating to a charity.

You stated

& I’m stating that their delivery model is broken; their workers are so overtaxed that they both cannot take a bio break nor park legally & do their job. If their drivers could only deliver to 75 stops instead of their current 100 (making up numbers here but I don’t think I’m that far off) by doing it legally then their delivery costs go up 33%. Would they still be as competitive if they weren’t routinely breaking the law by double parking which not only inconveniences other drivers, whether they use Amazon or not but also is a danger to the community when an emergency vehicle can’t get by?

Go read the link, they admitted to it & if you follow to the further link in that article they even have internal documentation that shows that management was aware of the problem.

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I never said or implied it did.

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I’m the OP and I’m done; my question has long since been answered. Carry on without me.

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Good choice, me too. Horse, water & all that.

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Can you show me where it says that in the OP?

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Admitted to what- double parking? They all do it. Or do you mean peeing in bottles?

“We know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this has been especially the case during Covid when many public restrooms have been closed,” the company wrote. Internal company documents obtained by The Intercept showed Amazon management was aware of a proliferation of bottles containing urine inside trucks and at fulfillment centers.

That means they were aware some drivers did it.

The lawsuit alleges-
The lawsuit, filed Monday in a Denver state court, alleges Amazon’s working conditions forced drivers in Colorado to urinate in bottles and defecate in bags inside the delivery trucks and refrain from using the bathroom “at risk of serious health consequences.”

FORCED and also defecate. “Aware” of the problem is way way different than “Management forced drivers to do that”.

So, no, they didnt admit to it.

It has been mentioned several times.

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I didn’t say they were a monopoly. I said some people don’t have the luxury of not using Amazon because their budgets are extremely price sensitive.

I was lamenting my privilege of being able to choose another avenue through which to purchase goods regardless of pricing.

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In the OP?

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You arent new here, you know full well that threads drift from the OP all the time.

However, read this

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I’m here to say that I’ve been using Bookshop.org to buy my digital books, which sends the profit to a local bookstore of my choice.

This has been a workable alternative to Kindle. Every book I’ve searched for on Bookshop, I’ve found. You can only read the books with the Bookshop app. It’s fine, although for some reason on my Boox Palma it won’t let me adjust font size (I can do that on my cell phone, though. Weird.) The Kindle reader is better, but Bookshop is serviceable.

I was worried it wouldn’t work offline, but it does. I read Abbadon’s Gate at 37,000 feet on my Boox Palma and even switched to a different book and had no problems without Internet.

I will probably buy certain books on Kindle, especially the ones I want to mark up in my Scribe, but I’m buying way fewer books on Kindle and it feels kinda great to support local.