Amazon Boycott, Anyone?

Hi all,

If anyone here is interested in working on boycotting Amazon, I'd love to start a thread to support each other as we do that. I feel Jeff Bezos has every right to turn the Washington Post into a right-wing rag if he wants, but I don't have to support it (I'm cancelling my subscription). I have further qualms about the union-busting he does and the way he treats his workers. I can easily find sources in a few days for all the troubling information about him, but can't today.

That said, I'm totally addicted to Amazon. I know I won't be able to go cold turkey. But I may start with just 15 no-Amazon days in March. I hope I can do more, but I want to set a realistic goal.

Anybody want to join?

Here's one link to ponder: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/con...y-better-uses/

These tax cuts he is advocating for and benefitting from are taking from the lower and middle classes and giving to billionaires.

Thanks for the link, I will check it out.

I'm definitely boycotting tomorrow on Economic Blackout day. I like your idea of 15 days, too.

Nope. I get stuff where I want to.

Nope, I watch too much on Amazon prime and order from Amazon when I need to.
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but echase, cutting in half what you order or use Amazon for sounds like a good approach.

I can do 15 days

I'm definitely doing the Feb 28th boycott. I'm playing around with boycotting Amazon/cancelling my membership. Haven't decided yet.

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There's also another boycott: Shutdown315, which is a boycott on March 15, but it also involves a whole bunch of things, like moving money to local banks, no shopping, no traveling, no subscriptions.

It would be pretty easy for me to boycott Amazon and other big box stores for 14 days, not counting my prepaid Amazon Prime and Music, but maybe not a huge priority. It's most likely just postponing things on my wish lists, but I don't buy a lot of things This is the first I've heard of it and I keep up pretty well with mainstream news, so I wonder how much it got around and how many will participate. I don't do social media, except this. I get by Whole Foods every week or two and as far as I'm concerned they run a decent business regardless of Bezos, so that's an exception.

I am doing the Feb 28 boycott (amazon included) as I like the idea of the People's Union uprising. I rarely shop at amazon anymore - mostly cheap quality stuff.

I'm glad there are others to join. I'm boycotting tomorrow but am not hopeful that it will have much of an impact. I do have hope that more of us gradually extricating ourselves from Amazon will have an impact in the long run.

I'm doing the boycott thing today. I assume it's more of a symbolic gesture than anything else, but easy enough for me to do.
I've been trying for awhile to move away from Amazon. I try to check eBay first, since a lot of small sellers use both platforms.