• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Amazon boycott March 7th through forever. There’s no need to give them an end date. Our action is completely toothless when we literally spell out for them exactly when we’ll come crawling back start giving them money again.

    • Awesome. Do you still buy online from other billion dollar companies or have you been able to go all local? I’m having a hard time getting past the convenience and cheapness they are able to provide. I have cut back a huge amount though since Covid where I never wanted to leave home to purchase things I need for home.

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        If possible I try to buy from local farmer markets (if my schedule lines up). Clothes I usually buy second hand or they’re merch to support creators I like. But if it comes to gas for my car geting something from a not billion dollar corp. is impossible. Games and game consoles are usually bought via steam or physical from the store. So I’d say it’s a work in progress, as most things are.

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        Forgoing the convinience isn’t easy, even gotta look at the purchase and decide if it’ll be used frequently or just a use and throw

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    Corporations don’t react as much as you’d think to 1 week interruptions in revenue numbers unfortunately as they are beholden to shareholders and shareholders react to quarterly earnings report. To truly send a message it would need to boycott from Q1 to Q2, basically Jan-April or even May.

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    7 days ago

    Canceled Prime weeks ago and done with Amazon. Unsubscribed to all US websites. We always prefered to buy locally, but would occasionally jump the fence. No more jumping. If it’s not either local, made in Canada, or Product of Canada, we’re doing without.

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    I completely ditched amazon - private and for my company. there are so many other options, slightly less convenient admittedly, but also slightly cheaper. works for me!

  • MayorOfAlmonds@lemmy.world
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    Amazon is just so convenient, it’s hard to say no. If I need new socks, I can press one button and somebody brings it to my front door in a couple hours at a cheap price. Alternative? Order them somewhere else online and get them in a week or drive 20 minutes, deal with parking + crowds to get them a couple dollars more expensive.

    It’s a crap situation but I understand how Amazon got so big.

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    7 days ago

    Yes do all of your purchases on the 6th and then on the 15th that’ll really show them!!!

    Fucking stupid …

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    7 days ago

    Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they’re fascist capitalist bitches.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Doing my boycott for the half a year already and at best are uszally small things like tea bags because that type is nowhere I have seen yet.

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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      7 days ago

      Unorganized boycotts with no demands and no pressure from labor unions are useless. Boycotts in support of labor are absolutely class solidarity.

      This one is useless. As most “reddit” boycotts are.

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        No. DEI was always performative. Companies realized that they no longer had to pretend to care so they stopped doing performative “DEI training” because it was no longer beneficial to their bottom line.

        It had nothing to do with people shooting cans of Bud Light. It had everything to do with the entire country shifting further with right wing reactionary beliefs.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    A whole 7 days??? Gosh gee willakers!!! You think people can uphold a boycott a whole 7 days???

    Look. Boycotts are effective, but you gotta be stubborn. It’s gotta be “boycott from now on” with no end date.

    Otherwise, it’ll just look like normal fluctuations in their business.

    “Oh, this week was slightly down…ah, but then it stopped. We’re good!”

    But if you boycott forever, then their numbers continuously go down. And if you get other people boycotting, those numbers go down faster.

    THAT’S how you make an impact.

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      8 days ago

      How do you get people who can’t see themselves boycotting indefinitely? You get them used to it by getting them on board to boycott for a fixed length of time. Ideally, as they warm up to the idea, you get them to boycott for longer.

      • thejml@lemm.ee
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        True, but 7 days isn’t enough time for that. I’ve gone weeks between purchasing the kinds of things Amazon delivers, so it’d just be normal. 2+ months is probably better. Especially if those months are Nov & Dec.

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          Some people can’t even handle a 1-day boycott. I think you’re overestimating the average person’s tolerance for discomfort.

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          Yeah but it lets people feel like they’ve boycotted. Which isn’t coddling/faux activism so much as it is starter-activism. We don’t want activism to seem hard… even though we know that effective activism pretty much requires meaningful changes to behaviour which often brings discomfort. People are really out of practice and our goal is getting people into the habit

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            Too late. If not buying unnecessary shit they don’t need from a particular retailer that could be replaced by any other during a previously delimited week seems revolutionary to them… I’m sorry but… They are a huge part of the problem.

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          I have spent the 38 years I have accumulated without needing to buy a single thing from that particular company. WTF?

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        I have ordered from them line 5 or 6 times, subscribed for a year because I wanted to watch a series by terry Pratchett, and never again interacted with it in the past 8 years or so. You are not boycotting food or water or oxygen.

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      In 1995 we boycotted Shell for environmental reasons and it worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spar

      Towing of the platform to its final position began on 11 June. By this time, the call for a boycott of Shell products was being heeded across much of continental northern Europe, damaging Shell’s profitability as well as brand image. […]

      On 20 June, Shell had decided that their position was no longer tenable, and withdrew their plan to sink the Brent Spar […]

      So it needed more than a week of concerted boycott action to bring big business into trouble, but not unlimited boycott.

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        That boycott had a demand attached, to prevent the sinking of the Brent Spar buoy. Effectively “unlimited” boycott until Shell gave into the demand.

        This and the last no shop Friday thing seem mostly pointless. I mean fuck Amazon for sure but shouldn’t there be some goal? “Boycott Amazon until X, Y, and Z” not “No buy from Amazon for a week but then we’ll be back so no worries!”

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            Implicit demands are for mob bosses and boat owners. If you’re threatening a corporation you need to be clear and direct.

            Less

            We are boycotting Amazon products until they stop be bad

            More

            We are boycotting Amazon products until they make another season of The Expanse

            Or whatever. Clear, concrete, demands.

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      This is how strikes are organized generally. You do limited time events too minimize the hurt on both sides, and bring them both to the table.