I’m still boycotting Amazon for the poor treatment of their warehouse workers.
I was boycotting Amazon before boycotting Amazon was cool
Do they still have warehouse workers?
Still boycotting big corps since inauguration. This made me find a refill store near me, repurpose more items (which actually looks real cool and saves me money), shop second hand, shop local for as much as possible.
Fuck em.
Im not buying shit from anyone. Even my son’s gift’s this year will be sourced second hand and from small retailers. They made my vote woth nothing, I’m not buying their garbage landfill trash!
I’m down with this.
this is good practice for organizing a general strike
I’ve been boycotting these stores since the inauguration.
TBH, I’ve been boycotting stores in general, thanks to the pedoeconomy.
I’ve been boycotting all US products and services online and offline since Trump 2.0. Now I’m working on avoiding the most stubborn things like Mastercard and visa, but I’m getting there.
Y’all are still shopping at these places? It’s been over a year since I last went to HD (just before I found out about their pro-Trump donations) and even longer since I shopped from Target or Amazon. Fuck all three of them.
I would recommend cutting Amazon anyway. You don’t realize how much useless junk you buy when it’s just that easily available. I’ve saved so much money since I cut it.
I don’t think a boycott is sufficient. We need to gum up the works. We need to enshittify as customers.
We need to waste employee time so they can’t do things that are profitable for the company.
I’ve received death threats for saying this.
What examples are there of wasting employee time?
Don’t return your shopping carts.
So be a prick to other people? We have enough of those already.
Whoa there, Satan.
My example was a different retailer, but:
Asking a ton of questions, offering to sign up for things like store credit cards and then backing out at the last second or filling in the form in such a way that it won’t go through. Financing a large tire purchase and backing out at the last minute. Leaving a cart full of frozen food in a low traffic area far away from the freezers on a busy day. Putting items randomly where they don’t go. “Not understanding” how the self-checkout works, buying cigarettes and being shit at describing what pack you want. Getting to the checkout with a cart full of frozen food and realizing you “left your wallet at home.” Splitting your bill over more than one method of payment for a single object, with the last method of payment being a gift card you know will decline. Getting to the checkout and halfway rung up, being like “oh, I forgot something I’ll just be a moment” and then leaving through the garden center. Trying to pay with any coupon but one you know will work, not being aggro about it or anything, just bumbling through politely, apologizing constantly and looking embarrassed. Only purchasing things you know are loss leaders. The idea is to act like the sort of customer who already wastes their time so you don’t let on that you’re doing it on purpose to get at their employers, and so if they crack down on the behavior they alienate the boomers who act like that as a matter of course, only the boomers are way more rude.
And tipping generously and leaving glowing reviews for the employees and scathing reviews for management for overworking their employees. Under different names for each so management can’t retaliate. And never ever do something that might negatively impact a frontline employee without also harming the company’s bottom line, either directly or as opportunity cost. And absolutely never do this to a union shop.
Naturally, there’s a different bespoke list for every type of retailer and every retailer in particular. And it must be done one chain at a time. You want the company to sweat in the face of competition that doesn’t have you as a problem. You want them to get a reputation as the place with super long lines that’s poorly organized and full of people who waste everyone’s time. You want to turn them into what kmart was in the early 2000’s, so that they can become what kmart is today.
EDIT: Also waste the time of other shoppers. Stand in front of high-traffic items with your cart parked so that it takes your half of the aisle from out of the middle while “making up your mind”. Seasonal items are great for this if you time it right.
Another edit: And this absolutely must be organized, so that this happens with an entire movement of people against one chain.
Now imagine putting this much effort into getting someone decent elected in your congressional district. Don’t make life shittier for the wage slaves who have to clean up after your stunts.
Never do anything that might harm a corporation. Got it loud and clear.
Drag shit around the store. Call and ask if they have a specific item in stock, something small and hard to inventory perfectly, so they have to go check. Accidentally drop things, make messes. Take a cart full of stuff to the front of the store and just walk away. Don’t do things that can get employees disciplined, like hanging out and talking to them. Just cause general mayhem, entitled Karen level stuff, at all times within the store.
Please don’t do that. You’re making the lives harder for some low level service employee. The people making the decisions you are upset about will have absolutely no idea this is happening because your mad at their policies.
Any messes you make should not be gross or hazardous. And you don’t have to act entitled while wasting their time. You can be polite, apologetic even if it doesn’t tip your hand. They already have existing karens.
Otherwise, yeah, that’s basically the gist.
I support this.
Buy stuff, unbox it, return it for a refund. Please only do this to big players like Amazon.
They pretend it’s cheap but it’s only cheap when it’s a tiny percentage of their sales - the reality is returns are costly for all businesses.
Sorry, just wondering, who threatened you with death for wasting an employee’s time?
who threatened you with death for wasting an employee’s time?
Another user here on lemmy. Made up a whole crazy power fantasy story about getting away with killing me.
And it was for the suggestion, not for actually doing it. It needs to be organized to be effective.
come on, target. stop this foolishness. we need each other.
but you clearly need me way more than i need you.
If organizations want to make actual change, they need to stop it with the one-day boycotts. We shouldn’t ever be giving these companies money. The longer you go without using Amazon and Target, the easier it gets.
If organizations want to make actual change, they need to stop it with the one-day boycotts.
Same goes for one day protests. If you want the government to be changed it needs constant and increasing pressure.
I don’t find that to be a particularly helpful boycott. Boycotting several large corporations like that takes a lot of effort. That’s effort that can be used for more effectively directly fighting Trump
Call your representatives, protest, rally voters, etc. are far more effective with less impact on your life
Hard disagree. Corporations taking L’s due to consumer choice is just about the last non-violent message we have that ever gets a response. Calling reps doesn’t matter at all, and I have no idea how changing shopping habits is expected to be harder than the degree of protesting required to achieve anything.
Many of our lives are improved by ditching the abusive relationship with these giant corporations, anyway, so the idea that it’s even strictly a burden is just not accurate.
So continue what a lot of us were already doing?
Yeah but it’s trendy now and will be for two or maybe even three whole days.
2 or 3 days won’t even register on a weekly report if people buy the products that they didn’t buy after the 3 days.
Just quit using them altogether. It is inconvenient and it is more expensive but making a stand should have a price. Otherwise it would have been just a sensible decision.
Hey, remember when millions of people didn’t buy anything for a single day in protest to show how much power they had and hurt the corporations in the wallets?
Remember the next day when millions of people then bought the stuff they waited a day for.
This is exactly it.
Over the last year I have changed many habits, even the way I cook, to not support these giant corps. I have always been anti-consumerous, but I’ve made drastic changes over the last few years to really reduce my shopping habits. It can be done. It takes a little effort at first but then you get used to it.
That’s exactly how I feel. I don’t use amazon and beyond a 6 month blip during covid never have. It’s incredibly inconvenient so a great way to reduce my consumption.
Yeah, like, I canceled Prime nearly a year ago now and just shop elsewhere. I only buy from companies with shitty policies like these if there’s no other realistic option (e.g. when something is only available on Amazon :/).
What’s an example of something you would need that you can only get on Amazon? I’m just curious
There was a specific CPU cooler that was only sold through Amazon. Wasn’t at my local computer store or any other online retailers.
I checked a local store that said they closed their doors to the public and online orders only. Ok, I thought. I’ll just order what I want and swing by. No. The order link sent me to Amazon and they only do it through them. Not even will-call it turns out. I gave up and figured I can live without it anyway.
Also, sail the high seas.
