Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit

• plz1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah…no. They ruin communities by undercutting local retailers into oblivion, and then pay starvation wages to force many of their employees onto government assistance just to scrape by.

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  • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Amazon is worse for those communities, though. They undercut retailers by even more, and then don’t hire local employees at all. In the communities where they do set up warehouses, the working conditions are even worse than Walmart.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This right here…as bad as Walmart is to communities and local businesses, Amazon is much worse.

      There’s only so much selection that can fit inside a Walmart. They aren’t going to carry every book, just the most popular, it’s harm to the local bookstore is limited. As an example.

      Walmart killed the general stores and the supermarkets more than anything. And some other markets that had limited time left for other factors, like record stores. But they can’t kill the more specific-needs stores nearly as easily. Those are getting killed by other big-box retailers (who themselves are struggling against Amazon now)

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  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In addition, ordering online from Walmart is every bit as bad as Amazon with the heaps and heaps of low quality Chinese junk sold under brand names that only exist for a few weeks at a time.

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