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

• BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Generally, I believe the convenience of cheap shit delivered to your door comes at the invisible cost of exploitative labor practices and/or excessive consumerism by the means of low quality crap that will need to be replaced regularly or through “buy more and save” deals. If you want to avoid supporting that, you’re probably going to have to spend a few extra bucks buying from a smaller business or buying secondhand.

  Convenience isn’t free and if we want to reduce our dependence on harmful institutions we’re going to have to make some sacrifices.

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  • FinnFooted@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I do this. But, I’m also lucky to live in a city with second hand shit everywhere. Not everyone lives in a city.

    But, google shopping will tell you an alternative store to buy most things online. And compare costs for you. This gets tricky if you’re also trying to cut google putbof your life though. There really is no ethical consumption under capitalism ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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• probably2high@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, in the case of the OP, the alternative is the manufacturer: www.ifixit.com/Tools

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Walmart and Target aren’t run by worse people. I’ve never heard of Target or even Walmart employees being forced to piss in bottles or a robot will fire them.

  They said, they are still bad people, as retail capitalists, but are you ready to have that conversation?

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  • rational_lib@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Retail capitalists are fine, but Amazon, Walmart, and Target all did the maga loyalty thing after Trump’s win. I don’t need to buy from someone who shares my politics or even doesn’t disagree with me, I just need them to not be outright oligarchs using my money to support dictators.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Good luck finding that unicorn.

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      • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        there is no ethical consumption under capitalism

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  • pahlimur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t want to simp for Target too much, but the union DCs I’ve been in seem to treat their employees pretty good. No idea about the stores though, I’ve only seen their distribution centers.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Target also have free 2 day shipping and 5% cash back if you use their “Red Card”, which is available as a debit or credit card. I’m using the debit card version. Some items do require a $25 minimum order, but not all of them.

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• SamboT@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Either buy more expensive shirts or stop buying creatine if you want to stop ripping them

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  • rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This comment should be higher lol

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Go into debt on those t-shirts if you have to

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• Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shop for shit on amazon then buy it from the manufacturers website.

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  • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I recently discovered dupe.com , which works quite well by giving it an Amazon link and finding it on potentially cheaper, definitely non-Bezos websites.

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• potpotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1. GNC
  2. Thrift store

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• CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just a heads up on the Costco online thing, their selection isn’t that expansive, so it can’t replace Amazon for you. You’re at the whims of what item and brand they decide to carry and when.

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• humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Temu or aliexpress

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lmfao

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• TechAnon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with Target? Only thing I heard was backlash from putting out certain kinds of lgbtq+ designs and then reacting by pulling those back (and getting backlash again for that).

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