How to avoid buying stuff online from Amazon - a list of alternative retailers

[Marty1]

I guess more people than ever will be using Amazon right now

Yup - and Bezos has made over $100 billion in the process.

Ive read people refer to this as a transfer of wealth as retailers have had to remain closed, many never to re-open, whilst likes of Amazon have globally made obscene levels of profit due to Covid.

 

[Jay Park]

I’ve never bought a single item off Amazon and I used to habitually shoplift the shittery out of Tesco.

Do I win this thread? Gotta be worth a few likes at least...

 

[hash tag]

Yup - and Bezos has made over $100 billion in the process.

Ive read people refer to this as a transfer of wealth as retailers have had to remain closed, many never to re-open, whilst likes of Amazon have globally made obscene levels of profit due to Covid.

While on the other hand paying very little in taxes, not to mention how they treat staff, either direct employees on indirect ones.

 

[hash tag]

I’ve never bought a single item off Amazon and I used to habitually shoplift the shittery out of Tesco.

Do I win this thread? Gotta be worth a few likes at least...

Asda?

 

[Jay Park]

Asda?

‘The’ Asda if you will, please

 

[hash tag]

They are not worthy of even the slightest embellishment

 

[Jay Park]

Please refrain from this unnecessarIly antagonistic behaviour

 

[8115]

For books, there's now Bookshop to support independent book stores.

I have used this website for Christmas presents and had an excellent experience every time.

 

[hash tag]

Not Amazon: Canadian website takes on the online giant

Ali Haberstroh’s directory lists nearly 4,000 independent businesses in Toronto, Halifax, Calgary and Vancouver

www.theguardian.com

 

[hash tag]

Not a retailer I know, but I recently discovered IMDB is wholly owned by Amazon. Use Wikipedia instead. Like IMDB wiki also have apps if required.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Aye, but they're ideologically opposed to trivia sections, which is the main reason I go to IMDb

 

[strung out]

Not a retailer I know, but I recently discovered IMDB is wholly owned by Amazon. Use Wikipedia instead. Like IMDB wiki also have apps if required.

IMDB and Wikipedia do different things.

 

[Roadkill]

I've been impressed with bookshop, but this suggests it might not be quite all its cracked up to be. It's also not that good for academic books, for which I still use Foyle's and an ageing second-hand specialist dealer whom I pay by sending cheques in the post!

 

[hash tag]

IMDB and Wikipedia do different things.

Yes. And know. You can certainly get cast, crew and synopsis of many films on wiki.

 

[hash tag]

I've been impressed with bookshop, but this suggests it might not be quite all its cracked up to be. It's also not that good for academic books, for which I still use Foyle's and an ageing second-hand specialist dealer whom I pay by sending cheques in the post!

I'm having an issue trying to by stuff from Foyles at the moment. Turns out they are part of Waterstones as is Hatchards Booksellers since 1797

 

[BigMoaner]

Boycotting them feels like trying to tell the tide not to come in.

 

[Serge Forward]

Foyle's was always virulently anti union. Has this stance changed?

Mind you, it was a piece of piss to shoplift from, not that I ever did such a thing and the very expensive and unaffordable book on italian anarchism was a gift

 

[Roadkill]

Foyle's was always virulently anti union. Has this stance changed?

That I did not know. Their being owned by Waterstone's doesn't bother me, but that does. Might switch my custom to Blackwell's, in that case...

 

[Lord Camomile]

Boycotting them feels like trying to tell the tide not to come in.

Perhaps, but it's really, really easy.

I honestly doubt understand how so many people seem to find it so difficult. I guess it is convenient, and probably cheaper in a lot of cases, but it's really so easy to use other sources for anything you might buy online.

 

[Roadkill]

Boycotting them feels like trying to tell the tide not to come in.

That's not a reason not to do it, though. Amazon is a revolting outfit. As Lord Camomile says, too, it's not difficult to find alternatives for most things.

 

[hash tag]

Not just books n music, but food, clothes and cosmetics How to find an alternative to Amazon that can deliver value and ethics

 

[newme]

I have tried alternatives to Amazon, even finding it on the website then ordering directly.
Amazon have a very standard and working returns situation when something went wrong.
4 places tried to charge me far more ordering directly and I gave up, 1 lead to fraud, 1 was cheaper, 2 needed returns which were made as difficult as possible, 2 returned fine. I still check on price but it seems way too much hassle to risk it unless I know the company already or it is not on amazon.

 

[not a trot]

I have tried alternatives to Amazon, even finding it on the website then ordering directly.
Amazon have a very standard and working returns situation when something went wrong.
4 places tried to charge me far more ordering directly and I gave up, 1 lead to fraud, 1 was cheaper, 2 needed returns which were made as difficult as possible, 2 returned fine. I still check on price but it seems way too much hassle to risk it unless I know the company already or it is not on amazon.

Wifey keeps buying things from Damart, most items end up being sent back as they don't fit. Thinking of introducing her to the concept of actually going into a shop and trying things on, before buying. Can't believe she worked in an M&S clothing department for years before retiring.