Amazon love them or hate them?

Westside Steve

@kvoethe said:

This is how coorporations take over the world..anyone remember Rollerball with James Caan?

It was never meant to be a game.

WSS

mjp28

@bob806 said:

Absolutely 100% hate Amazon.

I'm not against anybody making a living. But a company like Amazon really made out (still making out) during this Covid era, taking in billion$ while small businesses shut down. And they squashed a worker's union movement in their company while doing so.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-violated-labor-law-alabama-union-election-labor-official-finds-rcna1582

The convenience of clicking on your phone to shop has killed small businesses, even Sears, JC Penny.

Is Amazon innovative? Yes. Definitely changed the landscape of America. It doesn't mean we have to like it.

Amazing. Sears and JCP getting steamrolled like ma and pa shops. Our Southern Park Mall built by EJ Debartolo has already lost key stores Dillards and Sears with JCP on life support. They've already torn down the Sears auto and the Sears store and turned it into a recreational area ???? All that's left is Macy's.

Amazon has the formula Target and Walmart (the old small business killer) are trying to fight back.

Amazon has won for now,. we even buy our canned vegetables by the 12 packs from them. Shopping in your pajamas at night how easy is that......oh get some batteries and ink pens while you're at it.

Westside Steve

Actually the Opie mentioned the fact that Bezos gave some money to an anti-vaxxer organization so I was wondering if Joe Biden lovers hate him now. Anyway...

Which mom and pop stores in downtown Noheresville USA would you prefer to shop in if they were magically brought back to life in their old location?

WSS

Kvoethe

@westside-steve said:

Actually the Opie mentioned the fact that Bezos gave some money to an anti-vaxxer organization so I was wondering if Joe Biden lovers hate him now. Anyway...

Which mom and pop stores in downtown Noheresville USA would you prefer to shop in if they were magically brought back to life in their old location?

WSS

Radio shack

Westside Steve

@kvoethe said:

Radio shack

Well RadioShack was hardly a mom and pop. Based in Texas there were at least 500 stores. And except for an emergency when I have to have some kind of an adapter I much prefer to wait 24 hours and get it 5% of Radio Shacks price.

WSS

Axe

I just wish I'd bought a ton of Amazon stock back when then thought first occurred to me

mjp28

@axe said:

I just wish I'd bought a ton of Amazon stock back when then thought first occurred to me

Amazon stock was dirt cheap until about 2016 then zoooom ! Doesn't pay a dividend but it's strictly a capital appreciation stock......... and it really appreciated !

One of those " I wish I put $ x,xxx in AMZN about 20xx. It's only up about 18% in the last 52 weeks but.......

FairHooker11

@westside-steve said:

Actually the Opie mentioned the fact that Bezos gave some money to an anti-vaxxer organization so I was wondering if Joe Biden lovers hate him now. Anyway...

Which mom and pop stores in downtown Noheresville USA would you prefer to shop in if they were magically brought back to life in their old location?

WSS

thats what i found strange about this story - i thought Bezo's / amazon shared the bed with the likes of zuckerberg / cuban/ dorsey / google guy etc

ill take it as a blip

I liked Sears

even up til the rise of amazon, every time Sears faltered ( and there were a few times..) it always managed to survive.

Westside Steve

@fairhooker11 said:

thats what i found strange about this story - i thought Bezo's / amazon shared the bed with the likes of zuckerberg / cuban/ dorsey / google guy etc

ill take it as a blip

I liked Sears

even up til the rise of amazon, every time Sears faltered ( and there were a few times..) it always managed to survive.

I like to see yours too. Again it's not a mom and pop. Any mom and pop store I can remember existing went out of business to a chain of some kind decades for Amazon was even heard of. I'm thinking maybe music stores with the last to fall?

WSS

FairHooker11

@westside-steve said:

I like to see yours too. Again it's not a mom and pop. Any mom and pop store I can remember existing went out of business to a chain of some kind decades for Amazon was even heard of. I'm thinking maybe music stores with the last to fall?

WSS

I remember Peaches at Southgate years ago - and then probably went to North Randall when they opened.

when vinyl was king i liked the used record type store over new record stores.

like books in a library - I prefer to touch them, read them before Id buy it.

in Mpls this record/head shop survived 53 years now - https://electricfetus.com/

DieHardBrownsFan

@westside-steve said:

I like to see yours too. Again it's not a mom and pop. Any mom and pop store I can remember existing went out of business to a chain of some kind decades for Amazon was even heard of. I'm thinking maybe music stores with the last to fall?

WSS

There is a music store on the corner of Snow and Ridge in Parma. Been there since the 60's I think.

Ibleedbrown

I’m proud to say l spent zero dinero with Amazon this holiday shopping season. Some past years l leaned on ‘em pretty hard. Damn you convenience!

As far as the donating to anti-vaxx groups, l’m no Amazon Smiles expert but l know individual shoppers can choose among 20,000 different charities to kick a percentage of their sales to, so there’s definitely room for variety in there. I wouldn’t be one bit surprised if there were quite a few opposing ideologies amongst those 20k non-profits. Here’s a big list.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/clpf/category/all/ref=smi_clpf_bbac_bc?pf_rd_p=6a2c39a0-e7ce-4bcc-906f-0bfa748ff4f6&pf_rd_s=mobile-hybrid-11&pf_rd_t=4201&pf_rd_i=navbar-4201&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=51BX610PTY4SJ3HGMKSJ

And vinyl records are hot now, much to my chagrin because it’s driving the prices up.