With a few exceptions, I haven't bought from Amazon in more than a decade. I never buy from them unless I absolutely can't find the thing I need anywhere else.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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I moved on from Amazon to local after the 28th.
Much of the province of Québec is already boycotting them since January, after they closed all their warehouses here to prevent them from unionizing.
Just stop using them entirely. Delete your account. It’s not that hard.
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easier to just cancel prime
Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.
Practice makes perfect, but this better viewed as steps to cutting them out of our lives and not just nudging them to stop supporting facism, destroying workers and our planet.
The need us. We don't need them.
Amazon.com could shut down at any point and Bezos wouldn't lose anything really. Most of the web runs on Amazon web services. You don't have to buy anything from them. If you're online, you're their product.
Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.
I cancelled Amazon years ago and haven’t looked back. Initial FOMO for basic things and for hard to find items. Funny enough, you get better shipping and better deals FROM the actual company than through Amazon.
Fuck Amazon and anything Bezos owns. Stop funding these billionaire fucks.
I already don’t use Amazon and I think I might actually have them at a net loss as I used to say things didn’t arrive back when they would do anything to make you happy.
Upvoted because everybody should stop using Amazon.
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Take the plunge and cut them out completely. After I stopped using Amazon I realized it is just like a drug, wasted money on useless things because they want you to consume more and more.
100% on board.
We need to turn this into a cancellation party
I deleted my account about a month ago.
I personally haven't bought anything from Amazon for years now (or really anywhere online, I think maybe 8 things in the past year?), issue is even within the last week I've spent hundreds if not thousands on AWS through work... Sure it's not me paying, but it's also pretty hard for me to not to given they have such a monopoly
Can someone just make an iCal that I can subscribe to? Can’t keep all these boycotts straight
How about an anti-Honey plug in that reminds you not to order when you’re trying to check out.
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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!
Wait until the 15th to order everything you were going to order this week. That will show them!
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.
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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